2,003 Quotes About Democracy

America is an idea more than anything. Promising ideas need to be nurtured, not battered.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

And what is this liberty, whose very name makes the heart beat faster and shakes the world?

Here we find the roots of American wealth and democracy—in the for-profit destruction of the most important asset available to any people, the family. The destruction was not incidental to America’s rise; it facilitated that rise. By erecting a slave society, America created the economic foundation for its great experiment in democracy.

To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting American's origins in a slavery economy is patriotism à la carte.

We should not deny males the opportunity to nurture and care, just as we should not deny females the opportunity to kill and maim in the name of Western democracy, if they fancy it.

The Roman Empire, born out the Roman Republic, with its ideas of democracy among a certain group of wealthy men (no vote for men without land -as with our Founding Fathers- and certainly no vote for women and slaves. Why are democracies built on top of one form of slavery or another?)

I passionately love liberty, legality, respect for rights, but not democracy. That is what I find in the depth of my soul.

Democracy is the antithesis of liberty. The foundation and cornerstone of liberty is private property and majority rule is thus logically incompatible with this.