Democracy Quotes — Page 30

Politician, Playwright

“The only salvation of the world today... is the rapid dissemination of the basic values of the West, that is, the ideas of democracy, human rights, the civil society, and the free market.”

Ideas Rights Democracy

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Tatyana Ali

Actress, Singer

“Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?”

America Democracy Democracies Have

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.”

Running Democracy

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.”

Motivational Democracy

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Woodrow Wilson

Politician

“An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy”

Democracy Invisible Empires

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Essayist, Philosopher, Poet

“If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.”

War Democracy Freedom

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Ray Bradbury

Author

“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”

Country Way Democracy

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Thomas Carlyle

Essayist, Historian, Novelist

“Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.”

Real Democracy Blessed

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Thomas E. Mann

Political Scientist

“America is an outlier in the world of democracies when it comes to the structure and conduct of elections.”

World America Democracy

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Thomas I. Emerson

Legal Scholar

“The Right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organized society.”

Religion Democracy Principles

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.”

Men Way Democracy

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Thomas Jefferson

Politician, Founding Father

“We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.”

Waiting Democracy Majority

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