Democracy Quotes

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John Calvin Coolidge

John Calvin Coolidge

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It would be foolish to pretend that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can make them, and serious ones. The people know it and pay the consequences; but compared to the mistakes that have been committed by any kind of autocracy, these others are unimportant.

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Denis Diderot

Denis Diderot

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There is no legitimate sovereign other than the nation; there can be no legitimate legislator other than the people.

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John Dos Passos

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Our entire system of government is based on the idea that no man is good enough to be trusted with more than limited power over his fellow men.

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Elbert Hubbard

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Democracy has at least one merit, and that is that a member of Parliament cannot be more incompetent than those who voted for them.

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John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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Democracy is a superior form of government because it is based on respect for man as a rational being.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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Just as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

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James Russell Lowell

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Democracy grants each man the right to be the oppressor of himself.

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Montesquieu

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Democracy must guard against two excesses: the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotism.

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Enrique Múgica Herzog

Enrique Múgica Herzog

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Democracy is not silence, it is the clarity with which problems are exposed and the existence of means to solve them.

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José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset

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Democracy [...] as a political norm seems like an optimal thing. But [...] of democracy in thought and deed, democracy in the heart and in custom, is the most dangerous disease that a society can suffer.

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Octavio Paz

Octavio Paz

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A nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.

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