Famous Quotes & Sayings

Susan Glaspell

I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.

Alexander Hamilton

If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy.

Adolf Hitler

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture in which its germs can spread.

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

We are nearing three months on strike. We have a duty to send this to the membership for a vote. It's democracy at its finest. The strikers at Boeing have the final say on whether to keep striking or not.

Terry Eagleton

Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

Kerry Washington

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Ann Coulter

Liberals could not be less interested in democracy when it came to taking out Saddam Hussein Now a loyal American ally [Mubarak] comes under attack and they are burning for democracy.

Leah Ward Sears

I've always been very interested in the struggle for human rights, not just here but abroad, and I wanted to be an inside player in that struggle. I wanted to make the laws reflect our ideals and ideas in this democracy that is America.

We had no choice. We did what any democracy would have done.

Ludwig von Mises

If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other benefits from the treasury, democracy is done for.

Daniel Fried

Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible,

Our communications system, and our democracy, is at a crossroads.

Mahathir Mohamad

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

My revolution shows that the pyramid has overturned. Social democracy is at the top of my pyramid.

Emma Bonino

landmark in a very difficult fragile development towards democracy.

Jalal Talabani

I think we will be able to be the model of democracy and prosperity in the Middle East,

Charles Clark

It is our duty to promote the view that democracy and not violence is the means of making change,

Our parties are better at fighting for democracy than making it work.

But what I have to say to people who might come forward is that one of the great things about our democracy is freedom of the press.

Jalal Talabani

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,

Cullen Hightower

Don't expect other nations to have a democracy like ours - they don't have enough lawyers.

Alexis de Tocqueville

What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

Drew Carey

What good is democracy if you can't get what you want?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Patronage is almost a wicked word. By itself it could well-nigh defeat democracy.

Dolores Huerta

If we don't have workers organized into labor unions, we're in great peril of losing our democracy.

Dick Gephardt

In every issue there are winners are losers, and the losers are plenty. But they have to be willing to grudgingly accept the result. That's the genius of our democracy.

Dick Gregory

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Amartya Sen

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Amartya Sen

Democracy is a universal value

Anatole France

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Andrew Vachss

Journalism is what maintains democracy. It's the force for progressive social change.