democracy Quotes

“Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and of themselves.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

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“We want the will of the people, not the votes of the people; and to give a man a vote against his will is to make voting more valuable than the democracy it declares.”

― G. K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World

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“Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment, will ruin us if our citizens are ill bred.”

― George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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“It runs as follows: The State is made for man, not man for the State.”

― Albert Einstein, The world as I see it

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“We should be men first, and subjects afterward.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

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“The tax which each individual is bound to pay, ought to be certain and not arbitrary.”

― Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

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“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

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“If I preached unity, I must act like a unifier, even at the risk of perhaps alienating some of my own colleagues.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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“In every ordered State, wealth is a sacred thing: in democracies it is the only sacred thing.”

― Anatole France, Penguin Island

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