Democracy quotes

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◆ People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

- Alan Moore100

◆ The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual

- Edward Bellamy99

◆ The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

- Charles De Montesquieu99

◆ A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment

- Aristotle99

◆ Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

- Aristotle99

◆ A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ It is true you cannot eat freedom and you cannot power machinery with democracy. But then neither can political prisoners turn on the light in the cells of a dictatorship.

- Corazon Aquino99

◆ I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.

- Senator John Kerry99

◆ Democracy is the art of thinking independently together

- Alexander Meiklejohn99

◆ The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

- Jimmy Carter99

◆ I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

- William Morris99

◆ Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

- Kofi Annan99