| Author |
Quotes |
| James Russell Lowell | Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy. |
| James Russell Lowell | Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. |
| James Russell Lowell | Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. |
| Jawaharlal Nehru | Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. |
| John Cotton | Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? |
| John Dryden | Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. |
| John Dryden | God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love. |
| John Dryden | Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. |
| John Dryden | Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. |
| John Patrick | Democracy is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. |
| John Quincy Adams | Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. |
| Lycurgus | To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house." |
| Norman Cousins | In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. |
| Taxile Delord | Caesarism is democracy without liberty. |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. |
| Walt Whitman | Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. |
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