Niya Democracy Quotes
Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.
Abdoulaye Wade
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
ALAN COREN
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert Camus
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
Alexander Meiklejohn
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights are not given. They are earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.
Aung San Suu Kyi
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
Democracy works when people claim it as their own.
BILL MOYERS
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
Carter Woodson
Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds.
Charles I of England
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it as the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
Dean Inge
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E.B. WHITE
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
Edward Bellamy
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
Felix G. Rohatyn
A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.
Fisher Ames
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
George C. Marshall
Democracy is supposed to give you a feeling of choice, like painkiller x and painkiller y. But they’re both just aspirin.
Gore Vidal
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H.L. Mencken
Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is like a hobby horse: It will carry you nowhere unless you use your own legs.
Herbert Samuel
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Irving Kristol
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
John Simon
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn’t grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Norman Cousins
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Plato
Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.
Ronald Reagan
Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan
Democracy is like a raft: It won’t sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
Russell B. Long
Democracy means not ‘I am as good as you are’ but ‘You are as good as I am.
Theodore Parker
A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
Theodore Roosevelt
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
William Allen White
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Winston Churchill
The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.
Woodrow Wilson
