Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

David Kennedy

Syria has been on the wrong side of history. Increasingly, the rest of the Middle East is moving towards democracy and freedom. On the other hand, Syria has always supported terror.

It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.

Winston Churchill

Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance.

I hope that those who don't get their way show some more maturity than in the past. There are people in Haiti who still need to learn that in a democracy you don't always get your way.

Ciaran Hinds

No nation can claim, 'We are an uncorrupt nation, therefore we will tell you what the morals of democracy are.'

there's a lot happening. Democracy is today's world order. Everybody's talking democracy in the region and the world. And they will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy.

They're fine people. I understand what they're going through. This is the world of democracy.

If you're going to go down this path of encouraging democracy, then to a very large extent you just suck it up.

In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself.

Harold Koh

In too many countries, leaders speak of democracy, yet rig elections, suppress dissent, and shackle the press.

Nadine Gordimer

In a democracy -- even if it is a so-called democracy like our white-Tlitist one -- the greatest veneration one can show the rule of law is to keep a watch on it, and to reserve the right to judge unjust laws and the subversion of the function of the law by the power of the state. That vigilance is the most important proof of respect for the law.

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?

Frank Herbert

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

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.

Mohamed ElBaradei

The Germans should be the first to sympathize with us [Egyptians]. They know how difficult it is to build a democracy following a dictatorship, and they were the first to be critical of Morsi's anti-democratic policies.

Karl Marx

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

Milos Forman

I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone.

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

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