Democracy Quotes

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.

Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

Unprecedented times require an unprecedented response.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Voter suppression is a very real and present threat to our democracy.