Quotes about Democracy
A man without a vote is in this land like a man without a hand.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.
— GK Chesterton
Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?
— Henry David Thoreau
No good government but what is republican... the very definition of a republic is 'an empire of laws, and not of men.'
— John Adams
What is true has never been a question to be decided by polls or popular opinion. Truth isn't 'democratic'—it's something that God has written into the very fabric of nature.
— Charles Colson
Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic
— Mahatma Gandhi
In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
— Graham Greene
To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
— Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
— Ronald Reagan
If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
— Mark Twain