Quotes and Sayings about Democracy

People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people.

V in V for Vendetta

Governments

The day we stop believing democracy can work is the day we lose it.

Jamillia in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.

Angela Merkel - October 2021, during the 31st Day of German Unity

German Unity 2021

It's every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest, and hold them accountable if they're not.

Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 3 Episode 6

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

William Beaverbrook

Work

Pretty much all I say politically is I encourage people to register to vote.

Emmylou Harris

Elections & Voting

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

Rick Perry

Democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.

Henry Kissinger

Elections & Voting

Democracy is complicated. It enables openness, it values debates, free thoughts and arguments. That's why it's vulnerable - from the inside and outside.

Annalena Baerbock - August 2022

Democracy has the power to quickly spread. But its erosion can happen just as fast. Democracy is freedom. We need to stand up for it.

Ursula von der Leyen - December 2021

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

John Hickenlooper

Empathy

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Robert Byrne

Human beings do want peace, stability and harmony and that comes through democracy.

Shiva Ayyadurai

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Johnny Carson

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Herbert Hoover

A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

A. Philip Randolph

Society

Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on.

Thurgood Marshall

Justice

When you become part of something, in some way you count. It could be a march; it could be a rally, even a brief one. You're part of something, and you suddenly realize you count. To count is very important.

Studs Terkel

Revolution

I like the noise of democracy.

James Buchanan

I will stand strong to defend people even if I don't agree with them.

Sharron Angle

Defense

A free press is the cornerstone of democracy; there is no question about that.

Hugh Grant

Freedom of Press

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Freedom Talking

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Walter Winchell

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Joko Widodo

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they have never been self-executing; that while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by His people here on Earth.

Barack Obama - Inauguration Speech, 21st January 2013

Human Rights Freedom 2013

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Justice

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Abraham Lincoln (Inaugural Address) - 1861

USA Independence Day

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War is young men dying and old men talking. You know this. Ignore the politics.

Odysseus in Troy

War Politics

Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.

Albert Einstein

Mathematics Politics

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Don Lucchesi in The Godfather - Teil 3

Money Politics

This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom Slavery

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

Freedom

A vote is like a rifle, its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Voices Elections & Voting

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

Patriotism

The police are either incompetent or corrupt. Or both.

Assane Diop in Lupin - Season 2 Episode 1

Police

Without freedom of speech, there is no modern world, just a barbaric one.

Ai Weiwei - Oktober 2009

Freedom of Speech

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Revenge Justice

Remember, remember ...the fifth of november

V in V for Vendetta

Thor: "Do you see yourself above them?"
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."

Thor in The Avengers

Governments

There aren't enough Jedi to protect the Republic. We're keepers of the peace, not soldiers.

Mace Windu in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

Jedi

I believe in Europe. I am convinced by Europe. Not only as a heritage from the past, but as hope and a vision for the future.

Angela Merkel (as Chancellor of Germany) - July 2020, Speech at the European Parliament

European Union

My aim remains, if history approves, to unite our country.

Helmut Kohl

German Unity

What did I learn in 2021? I learned that nobody learned anything in 2020.

Penn Parker in Death to 2021

2020 2021

As a Jedi, we were trained to be keepers of the peace, not soldiers. But all I've been since I was a Padawan is a soldier.

Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 7 Episode 11

Jedi

Gives us clones all a mixed feeling about the war. Many people wish it never happened. But without it, we clones wouldn't exist.

Captain Rex in Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Season 7 Episode 11

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

William Beaverbrook

England & Great Britain Hats

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