Democracy Quotes
Barack Obama and the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu have the most entries, with H. L. Mencken and Franklin Roosevelt behind them, so a lot of the page is speeches. For the dry material go to Mencken in Smart Set (1910), who called democracy the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard; Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), on election by the incompetent many instead of appointment by the corrupt few; and Disraeli’s Lothair (1870).
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch” is credited to Benjamin Franklin and flagged misattributed. The earliest version in the notes is a Usenet post from 23 April 1990. The line that democracy is the most vile form of government, credited to Madison, is flagged too.
No democracy can survive without a thriving middle class and entrepreneurs are our job creators.
What democracy is cannot be separated from what democracy should be.
They would rather not have democracy than have to share it with people who are different from them
A functioning democracy cannot stand when its people do not trust their leaders to uphold the law.
Democracy coupled with good governance leads a country to sustainable development.
“These people are the assassins of democracy,” she stated during Constitutional March in court.
Egypt will not be a democracy until women are as free as men.
I have always believed that transparency is critical to a functioning democracy.
Democracy doesn’t work if people can’t trust the system that they use to cast ballots.
It is a dastardly crime and an insult to the word democracy to make a commodity of jailing people.
Human rights, equality, democracy and the rule of law are under threat.