Democracy Quotes

No country is free unless it is democratic.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

It is one of the characteristics of a free and democratic nation that it have free and independent labor unions.

Democracy without God is mans worship and elevation of himself and his own intelligence or humanism, where man becomes his own measure for morality, judgment, and justice.

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

I don’t have time to put up with the politics. Who’s a Democrat? Who’s a Republican? Who’s liberal? Who’s conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That’s what I’m concerned about.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

A democracy cannot thrive where power remains unchecked and justice is reserved for a select few.