2,003 Quotes About Democracy

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

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.

Julian Assange shouldn't be the subject of a grand jury hearing, he should be given a medal. He's contributing to democracy.

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies.

The worst of all States is the democratic State.

Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.

Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy.

As John Adams said, all democracies will eventually self-destruct. We seem to be doing it very quickly.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.