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30 Best Quotes on Democracy

Democracy is a system of government where power is held by the people, who either make decisions directly or elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.

Below are the “30 Best Quotes on Democracy”

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.

The price of democracy is eternal vigilance.

Democracy is not just a political system, but a way of life.

Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Democracy is based on the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Woodrow Wilson

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

John F. Kennedy

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99 percent vote.

Marvin Simkin

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Clement Attlee

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Aristotle

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Peter

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

John Stuart Mill

Democracy is not a state. It is an act, and each generation must do its part to help build what we called the Beloved Community, a nation and world society at peace with itself.

John Lewis

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Norman Cousins

The key to a successful democratic society is an educated and informed citizenry.

Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

John Ralston Saul

Democracy is the counting of heads, not what’s in them.

James Reston

The greatest threat to democracy is the illusion that it has already been achieved.

Unknown

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a process of self-discipline. Like a teenager, it is an unruly beast that does what it is allowed to do.

P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Laurence J. Peter

Democracy is not just about one election day every few years. It is about what happens between elections.

Kofi Annan

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 the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

Sydney J. Harris

The true essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

Anna Garlin Spencer

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