Democracy Quotes - Page 33

• The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact. . . . [A] government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect . . . their governors are educated.

  John Dewey

  Education, Successful, Government

  John Dewey (2015). “Democracy and Education: Top American Authors”, p.66, 谷月社

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• Jeffersonian Democracy simply meant the possession of the federal government by the agrarian masses led by an aristocracy of slave-owning masses.

  Charles A. Beard

  Government, Political, Aristocracy

  Charles A. Beard (2017). “Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South”, p.9, Courier Dover Publications

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• The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

  William Beveridge

  Men, Political, Politics

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• Democracy is no easy form of government. Few nations have been able to sustain it. For it requires that we take the chances of freedom; that the liberating play of reason be brought to bear on events filled with passion; that dissent be allowed to make its appeal for acceptance; that men chance error in their search for the truth.

  Robert Kennedy

  Passion, Acceptance, Men

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so... I am afraid we can only imagine the terror and the carnage there and the many, many innocent people who will have lost their lives... It is perpetrated by fanatics who are utterly indifferent to the sanctity of human life and we, the democracies of this world, are going to have to come together to fight it together and eradicate this evil completely from our world.

  Tony Blair

  Couple, Fighting, Our World

  Tony Blair's speech to the Trades Union Congress, September 11, 2001.

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• ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Disappointment, Hate

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• [the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

  Fisher Ames

  Government, Historical, Republic

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• Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it kills the keeper, fires the building, and perishes.

  Fisher Ames

  Fire, Historical, Building

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• Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

  Fisher Ames

  Long, Historical, Liberty

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• Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Historical, Anarchy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.270, Harvard University Press

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• The Greeks... labored under the delusion that their democracy was a guarantee of peace and plenty, not realizing that unrestrained majority rule always destroys freedom, puts the minority at the mercy of the mob, and works at cross-purposes to the effective use of human energy and individual initiative.

  Henry Grady Weaver

  Majority Rule, Greek, Historical

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• Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Tyrants, Historical

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Great nations of the world are moving toward democracy.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Historical, World

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1989

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• We must fortify African democracy and peace by launching Radio Democracy for Africa, supporting the transition to democracy now beginning to take place in Nigeria.

  William J. Clinton

  Historical, Transition, Radio

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.69, Best Books on

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• We must continue to deepen our ties to the Americas and the Caribbean, our common work to educate children, fight drugs, strengthen democracy, and increase trade.

  William J. Clinton

  Children, Fighting, Ties

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.69, Best Books on

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• And I'd like to say to the Senate, I hope you will say yes to a stronger American democracy in the year 2000.

  William J. Clinton

  Years, Historical, Stronger

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999”, p.70, Best Books on

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• As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on the way.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, World, Way

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• It is no accident that the rise of so many democracies took place in a time when the world's most influential nation was itself a democracy.

  George W. Bush

  Historical, World, Influential

  National Endowment for Democracy Address on the Middle East, delivered 6 November 2003, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

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• I think the important thing is to realize that the establishment of a democracy is sometimes a messy thing and it takes time. Yeah, we've been at it 240 years.

  Mike Huckabee

  Thinking, Years, Historical

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• Now the question is, now that we are there, what should we do in the best interest of the U.S., not only from a standpoint of the necessity of some stable democracy in the Middle East.

  Mike Huckabee

  Historical, Middle East, Should

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• That does not mean we won't experience the tragedy of the loss of some American lives. We will have an opportunity to instill a democracy in Iraq which will be an example and perhaps force other nations in that region to move in the same direction.

  John McCain

  Moving, Mean, Loss

  "McCain: We will win this conflict easily". Interview With Wolf Blitzer, www.cnn.com. January 22, 2003.

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• But we have a war of ideals and ideas, and that is to sell democracy.

  John McCain

  War, Ideas, Historical

  "Newsweek Quran story prompts policy review", www.cnn.com. May 17, 2005.

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• There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

  Hillary Clinton

  Country, Historical, Citizens

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

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• We are here to advance the cause of women and to advance the cause of democracy and to make it absolutely clear that the two are inseparable.

  Hillary Clinton

  Two, Historical, Causes

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

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