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.

People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.

Democracy is a genus, not a species. Getting a democracy is rather like getting a ‘mammal’ for a gift. Kittens are nice. Wolverines will lunch on your eyeballs. You don’t drop a wolverine in your friend’s lap, and then walk away feeling you’ve done him a favor, since ‘the best pets are mammals.’