Democracy Quotes

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

Best, Against, Argument

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

Idea, Master, Slave

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

Success, Hope, Home

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle

Men, Property, Rulers

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Long, Remember, While

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Education, Real, Cannot

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Power, Government, Forget

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Others, Said

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

Ignorance, Security, Voter

China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.
Dalai Lama

Freedom, Liberty, Cannot

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

God, Long, Cannot

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato

Liberty, Tyranny, Slavery

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nothing, Person, Him

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan

Government, Worth, Dying

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty, Mad, Dead

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality, Nothing, Liberty

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mahatma Gandhi

Change, Heart, Spirit

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

Deserve, Shall, Governed

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle

Power, Rich, Poor

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken

Good, Hard, Common

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Aristotle

Best, Government, Equality

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.
Aristotle

Men, Respect, Free

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

Road, Socialism

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski

Time, Between, Vote

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Plato

Government, Equality, Full

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

Violence, Left, Head

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson

Government, Special, Hands

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Freedom, Government, Him

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

Government, Few, Election

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