Democracy Quotes
On civic duty, accountability, and defending democratic ideals.
These quotes treat democracy as something requiring active maintenance, from elections as the basic tool for keeping leaders answerable to broader concern about democratic accountability eroding over time. Explore Democratic quotes for related ideas.
If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed those conversations when they speak out their own views.
If democracy as we know it has to survive the elites have to regain their credibility. And they have to start by admitting that their economic model is broken.
If democracy is to be an articulation of mutual respect, a leader in a democracy leads by showing respect to all.
I told the students that we can exert pressure without resorting to violence, and that we can move towards democracy without violence; that way, God will allow it.
We want to be, I think, an example for the rest of the Arab world, because there are a lot of people who say that the only democracy you can have in the Middle East is the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a...
In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
America has an identity crisis. This is a relatively new country compared to the rest of the world, yet it's the bully that fronts to know war and democracy like none other, therefore leading the global arbitration on both fronts.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
