Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Hamilton

Democracy, if it meant what our forefathers said, that would be great, but unfortunately it's been corrupted by this funding and funding of campaigns. There's a much better way to do it. There could be a small amount of money given by every taxpayer to be dedicated to candidates.

George H. W. Bush

It's too much show business and too much prompting, too much artificiality, and not really debates. They're rehearsed appearances.

Ha-Joon Chang

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

Haile Selassie

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Gustav Heinemann

Liberal democracy must finally become the vital element of our society.

H. G. Wells

The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.

Byron Dorgan

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

Janet Erskine Stuart

Are democracy and poetry exclusive of one another and, if so, why?

Margaret Atwood

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can go very quickly.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power.

Margaret Thatcher

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

Margaret Thatcher

I'm also very much aware that it is you who brought democracy to Chile, you set up a constitution suitable for democracy, you put it into effect, elections were held, and then, in accordance with the result, you stepped down.

Mary Ritter Beard

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

To find ways of practicing democracy, not ways of orating about it, is our great problem.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

Mikhail Gorbachev

In effect, according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible. By gaining democratic freedoms the working masses come to power.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Mike Carey

No, there are no special places in hell. Hell is a democracy.

Nelson Mandela

A free press is one of the pillars of democracy.

Nelson Mandela

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

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.

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.