Democracy Quotes

Real change never occurs from the top on down, [but] always from the bottom on up.

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I don’t know how to live anymore. Sometimes it’s so hard.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

In any real democracy, magistracy isn’t a benefit—it’s a burdensome responsibility that can’t fairly be imposed on one individual rather than another.

Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to an untiring effort.

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.

It is downright mockery to talk to women of their enjoyment of the blessings of liberty while they are denied the use of the only means of securing them provided by this democratic-republican government: the ballot.

Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15.