Quotes about Democracy

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.

The first less is this: take it from me, every vote counts.

I would like to say to my friends in Poland: Let's make good choices, vote for democracy.

I was 51 when I voted for the first time in 1994, and I look at South Africa through those spectacles.