Democracy Quotes - Page 41

We need to keep ringing the bell, wake people up to get our democracy together. Farm workers are like a symbol, and it is good that people are paying attention.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors.

What good shall I do this day?

Having created the conditions that make markets possible, democracy must do all the things that markets undo or cannot do.

Through democracy we can address the basic needs of the people, involve them as participants in planning and restore the authority of the government.

There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it.

The Republic may not give wealth or happiness, she has not promised these. It is the freedom to pursue these, not their realization, we can claim.

In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.

America is great because she is good.

I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted by irrational chaos. A place where I'd felt instantly at home.

The thinking it took to get us into this mess is not the same thinking that is going to get us out of it.