Don’t forget to vote. Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about democracy.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
A. Philip RandolphA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas JeffersonA great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.
Theodore RooseveltAll democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.
Aldous HuxleyDemocracy doesn't mean that the majority is right.
MinkukelDemocracy don't rule the world,
You'd better get that in your head;
this world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob DylanYou'd better get that in your head;
this world is ruled by violence,
But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Source: Lyrics: Union Sundown
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
PlatoDemocracy is a government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham LincolnDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H.L. MenckenDemocracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis BorgesDemocracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert ByrneDemocracy is no way to establish a truth.
Richard DawkinsDemocracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.
Albert CamusDemocracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H.L. MenckenDemocracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Sydney J. HarrisDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H.L. MenckenDemocracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
James BovardDemocracy requires compromise, even when you are 100 percent right.
Barack ObamaIf voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma GoldmanIn a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
AristotleIt has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston ChurchillNo one is born a good citizen; no nation is born a democracy. Rather, both are processes that continue to evolve over a lifetime. Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts off from its youth severs its lifeline.
Kofi AnnanOn some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H.L. MenckenOne has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Claude PepperThe best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston ChurchillThe Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
Dave BarryThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore WhiteThe test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. SockmanThe 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 WilsonTwo cheers for democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E.M. ForsterVoters make decisions with their feelings, not their brains.
(unknown author)When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark TwainYou measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
Abbie Hoffman