2,003 Quotes About Democracy

In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.

If it's good for China, opening up and encouraging democracy and so on, why isn't it good for Cuba?

And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up

Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

we will never surrender to the terrorists who despise democracy and distort religion. Never.

I think the Iraqi minister of human rights wanted to show them which kind of democracy now we have,