democracy Quotes

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy passes into despotism.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.