Quotes about Democracy
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
— Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
— Ronald Reagan
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
— Mark Twain
The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.
— Ayn Rand
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
— Helen Keller
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
— Thomas Jefferson
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
— Anonymous
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
— Roger Williams
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
— Roger Williams
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
— Barack Obama
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
— Thomas Paine