Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [61-80] of 355 Democracy quotesDemocracy QuotesDemocracy Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.~ Orson Scott Card Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling buisness: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.~ Thomas Carlyle There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration.~ Andrew Carnegie The Democratic constituency is just like a herd of cows. All you have to do is lay out enough silage and they come running. That’s why I became an operative working with Democrats. With Democrats all you have to do is make a lot of noise, lay out the hay, and be ready to use the ole cattle prod in case a few want to bolt the herd.~ James Carville The freedom to express varying and often opposing ideas is essential to a variety of conceptions of democracy. If democracy is viewed as essentially a process – a way in which collective decisions for a society are made – free expression is crucial to the openness of the process and to such characteristics as elections, representation of interests, and the like.~ Jonathan D. Casper There are two kinds of restrictions on human liberty -- the restraint of law and that of custom. No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.~ Carrie Chapman Catt The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk, but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. The real value of freedom is not to the minority that wants to talk but to the majority that does not want to listen.~ Zechariah Chafee, Jr. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.~ Noam Chomsky Democracy is essentially coercive. The winner gets to use public authority to impose their policies on the losers.~ John Chubb The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston Churchill Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.~ Sir Winston Churchill Our major mistakes have not been the result of democracy, but of the erosion of democracy made possible by the mass media’s manipulation of public opinion.~ Robert Cirino But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.~ Ramsey Clark The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and missile technology... Such forbearance on our part might have made sense during the Cold War when China was the counterweight to Soviet power. It makes no sense to play the China card now when our opponents have thrown in their hand.~ Bill Clinton The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.~ Bill Clinton The person who is right is the person who is the strongest, in this case, paradoxically, it's the cowards who are the brave ones, and they manage to impose their ideas on everyone else.~ Paulo Coelho Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.~ Mark B. Cohen Every effort to confine Americanism to a single pattern, to constrain it to a single formula, is disloyalty to everything that is valid in Americanism.~ Henry Steele Commager The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority. Unrestrained political authority, though it be confided to masses, cannot be trusted without positive limitations, men in bodies being but an aggregation of the passions, weaknesses and interests of men as individuals.~ James Fenimore Cooper Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print