2,003 Quotes About Democracy

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Congress may carry on the most wicked and pernicious of schemes under the dark veil of secrecy. The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

For all the enlightened nations that profess a loyalty to liberty, democracy, economy and all the rest, there has long been a readiness to look for a chosen one; as Carlyle pointed out, even the French, those great anti-venerators, those relentless beheaders of Great Men, worshipped Voltaire.

Democracy, freedom and liberty do not make us more than what we are; it is our commitment that matters.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information.

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ