The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country’s and ultimately that of the whole of mankind.
Democracy Quotes
The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. That can never happen except through nonviolence. No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building.
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they were equal in any respect, they were equal absolutely.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
