Voting And Democracy Quotes

• Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Country, Witty, Patriotic

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.

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• Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

  George Jean Nathan

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Political

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• Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Success, Education, Real

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.538, Best Books on

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• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  "The Home Book of Quotations, Classical and Modern". Book by Burton Egbert Stevenson, 1937.

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• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Voting

  Vanderbilt University 90th Anniversary Convocation Address, delivered 18 May 1963, Vanderbilt University Stadium, Nashville Tennessee

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• Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Democracy, Done, Nations

  Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”

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• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Heart, Land

  The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.

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• The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.

  Edward Teller

  Freedom, Democracy, Weapons

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• Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Democracies Have, People, Voting

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• There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

  Ralph Nader

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Democracy

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• It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Sarcastic, Time

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• It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fake People, Freedom, Democracies Have

  Jumpers act 1 (1972) See Nast 1; Somoza 1

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• Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

  Abraham Lincoln

  4th Of July, Patriotic, America

  Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pa., 19 Nov. 1863.

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• I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

  Walter Cronkite

  Moving, Thinking, Media

  "The Nation: Walter Cronkite America's Anchorman". www.npr.org. July 20, 2009.

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• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Democracies Have, Practice

  to Edwin L James of the New York Times, 1928.

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• Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  Paul Wellstone

  Education, Democracies Have, Goal

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• Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

  Bertrand Russell

  Freedom, Humorous, Men

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• Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

  Peter Ustinov

  Democracy, Way, Corruption

  "Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy". Book by Michael Soussan, November 4, 2008.

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• The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

  Grace Abbott

  Children, School, Democracy

  Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”

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• Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

  Daniel Barenboim

  Trust, Taken, Escaping

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• You can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  Larry Flynt

  Niece, Sheep, Majority Rule

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• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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• Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Democracies Have, Government, Democracy

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• As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.

  Paul Wellstone

  Responsibility, Community, Political

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• Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

  Meg Greenfield

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Practice

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