Democracy Quotes
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.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
You have fewer rights because you are a minority. Absolutely, that’s how democracy works.
We are now forming a republican government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.
Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.
Without a strong educational system — free of government control — democracy is crippled. Knowledge is not only the key to power. It is the citadel of human freedom.
You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government.
The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.
If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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.
Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.
The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control - 'indoctrination,' we might say - exercised through the mass media.
The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.
A people inspired by democracy, human rights and economic opportunity will turn their back decisively against extremism.
The origin of all power is in the people, and they have an incontestable right to check the creatures of their own creation.
The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.
Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.
Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
