Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the key to our strategy throughout southeastern Europe,

Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

Democracy is taking its first steps in my country. It needs international help to grow.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised

James Russell Lowell

Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

The next government will have the greatest legitimacy of any administration since the return to democracy in 1982.

It's just one more way the Legislature can have an impact on democracy.

Jesse Jackson

It's not enough to vote for a democracy, ... Democracy requires vigilance. Democracy requires patience.

H. L. Mencken

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The general will is always right.

Jeremy Clarkson

The Americans lecture the world on democracy and then won’t let me turn the traction control off!

Jerrold Nadler

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.

Jean Chretien

Everybody has the right to speak up in a democracy. We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just. Sometimes as prime minister, when i was caught up in a really loud demonstration, I used to say to myself that I deserved it because of all the demonstrations I myself had organized as a student against Duplessis.

Christopher Lasch

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

George Will

The case for democracy is not esthetic.

George Will

In democracy, as quaintly understood, voters pick their representatives. American democracy increasingly reverses that. Legislative districts are drawn to protect incumbents who, effectively, pick their voters.

Jim Hightower

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

Hillary Clinton

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Hillary Clinton

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Herbert Croly

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Ian Mckellen

Why live outside the US? Do you want health care or safe food products or democracy or something? They're all overrated. Stay for the excellent cable TV.

Hugo Chavez

But Cuba doesn't have a dictatorship it's a revolutionary democracy.

Hugo Chavez

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

Hugo Chavez

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

Howard Zinn

Civil disobedience is not something outside the realm of democracy. Democracy requires civil disobedience. Without civil disobedience democracy does not exist.

Howard Zinn

If democracy were to be given any meaning, if it were to go beyond the limits of capitalism and nationalism, this would not come, if history were any guide, from the top. It would come through citizen's movements, educating, organizing, agitating, striking, boycotting, demonstrating, threatening those in power with disruption of the stability they needed.

Gore Vidal

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

Gore Vidal

We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic.

George Bernard Shaw

If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.

George Bernard Shaw

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

Christine Lagarde

You are never wrong when you have voted because you've acted in accordance with your conscience and your beliefs, and you've exercised your democratic right, which is, you know, perfectly legitimate in our democracies.