2,003 Quotes About Democracy

A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Our safety, our liberty, depends upon preserving the Constitution of the United States as our fathers made it inviolate. The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

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

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.