Democracy Quotes

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. (Edmond Burke, 1729-1797)

It has been said that democracy is the worst from of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. (Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881)

Only if basically the democracy of our day satisfies the mental moral, and physical wants of the masses living under it, can it continue to exist. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1890-1969)

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (Harry Emmerson Fosdick, 1878-1969)

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe. (John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963)

One fifth of the people are against everything all the time. (Robert F. Kennedy, 1925-1968)

We must define democracy as that form of government and of society, which is inspired above every other, with the feeling and consciousness of the dignity of man. (Thomas Mann, 1875-1955)

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them. (Mark Twain, 1835-1910)

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. (Elwyn B. White, 1899-1985)

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. (Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900)

The world must be made safe for the democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. (Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924)

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