democracy Quotes

“It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit...”

― Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“VOTE, n. The instrument and symbol of a freeman's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

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“Were there a people of gods, their government would be democratic. So perfect a government is not for men.”

― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

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“The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the trusted foundations of political liberty.”

― Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War

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“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World

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