Democracy Quotes

The maintenance of a spirit of mutual self-help through voluntary giving, through the responsibility of local government, is of infinite importance to the future of America. Everyone who aids to the full extent of his ability is giving support to the very foundations of our democracy.

The Trump era is also going to be one of the weirder times. When people look back historically about the division in this country, he’s such a polarizing figure that so many people felt like they could abandon their own ethics and morals and principles just to attack him and anybody who supports him because […]

The only way we’re going to lose this election is if the election is rigged, remember that. It’s the only way we’re going to lose this election. So we have to be careful.

We have to be very careful with the ballots. The ballots, that’s a whole big scam. We want to make sure the election is honest, and I am not sure that it can be. I don’t know that it can be with this whole situation of unsolicited ballots.

Democracy, freedom, human rights have come to have a definite meaning to the people of the world which we must not allow any nation to so change that they are made synonymous with suppression and dictatorship.

I intend to open this country up to democracy, and anyone who is against that, I will jail, I will crush.

Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market means they are on sale to the highest bidder.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses […]

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an ‘inconvenience’. We have opted instead for an authoritarian system “disguised’ as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those […]

Democracy is the great love of the failures and cowards of life.