Quotes about Democracy

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents they are the government, the sovereign power.

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

One of the best things that we have in India is a free press.

In some ways, political decency is a sign of a healthy democracy, but in other ways, it is the cause of it.

Sometimes I think that a parody of democracy could be more dangerous than a blatant dictatorship, because that gives people an opportunity to avoid doing anything about it.

In a democracy, citizens have to be self-disciplined, or the country goes down, defeated from within by moral rot.

The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn't matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

It is a huge myth that our voices don't matter, that our vote doesn't count.