“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
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Woodrow Wilson
3 quotes“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”
Sir Winston Churchill
3 quotes“it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.”
Tocqueville
2 quotes“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors som...”
Barack Obama
2 quotes“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democrac...”
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other f...”
Abraham Lincoln
1 quote“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Aldous Huxley
1 quote“If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible.”
Aung San Suu Kyi
1 quote“I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.”
Daniel Webster
1 quote“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
1 quote“Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.”
Gilbert Chesterton
1 quote“Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
Gloria Steinem
1 quote“Citizens who refuse to obey anything but their own conscience can transform countries, it is the basis of any real democ...”