Quotes about Democracy

I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.

Frequently people just vote for the party out of power because they're disappointed or angry at what is happening at the moment.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Until we can democratically control the wealth that is created from our labor, there isn't real democracy.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

As a democratic society, Malawi has a moral obligation to ensure that each and every injustice, whether through acts of commission or omission, is met with deliberate and tangible action.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop.