Democracy Quotes - Page 3

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy.

The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.

There is no state with a democracy except Libya on the whole planet.

The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.

The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy.

Cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy.

Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

The greatest way to defend democracy is to make it work.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

Naturally I never had the intention to offend or alienate Slavs. ... What makes me different from the 'nazis' are basically three things; unlike them I am not socialistic (not even on a national level), I am not materialistic and I believe in (the ancient Scandinavian!) democracy.

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.

No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities.