Democratic Quotes

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through. (Alexis de Tocqueville)
The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference. View quote
Ralph Nader
Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff. View quote
Stephen Harper
I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise? View quote
Federico Fellini
I wish to assure you that there can never be any return to the state of armed conflict which existed before our commitment to peace and the democratic process of election under the Lancaster House agreement. View quote
Robert Mugabe
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship. (George F. Kennan)
In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality. View quote
Mary McCarthy
4. Knowledge is the most democratic source of power. View quote
Alvin Toffler
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing. View quote
Karl Rove
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Our society is illuminated by the spiritual insights of the Hebrew prophets. America and Israel have a common love of human freedom, and they have a common faith in a democratic way of life. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. View quote
John F. Kennedy
International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples. View quote
Henri La Fontaine
To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something -- to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity. (Charles Krauthammer)
If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
We are filled with the first of all democratic doctrines, that all men are interesting. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
[T]he blind lead the blind, it's the democratic way. View quote
Henry Miller