Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benazir Bhutto

Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.

Benazir Bhutto

Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

Benjamin Disraeli

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

C. S. Lewis

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

C. S. Lewis

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

Al Gore

American democracy has been hacked.

Allen Ginsberg

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Abraham Lincoln

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

Douglas Adams

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Annette Lu

Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.

David Lloyd George

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

Thomas Paine

Government is best which governs least

Sinclair Lewis

On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.

Lech Walesa

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Hillary Clinton

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

George Soros

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

Jeff Cooper

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Jean Baudrillard

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

George Hamilton

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

H. L. Mencken

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

P. J. O'Rourke

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Paul Johnson

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Ken Livingstone

If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

James Madison

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

John Dewey

The goal of education is to enable individuals to continue their education.

John Dewey

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Pearl S. Buck

For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.

Pankaj Mishra

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.