Quotes about Democracy

One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not.

The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own.

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason and justice.

The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former

Just as democratic government cannot be condemned because of errors and even crimes committed by men democratically elected, so trade-unionism must not be condemned because of errors or crimes of occasional trade-union leaders.

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite