Victor Hugo Quotes

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Israel is not an anarchy.

If we are going to save our hides, we need to start with democracy.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended, Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in democracy, you have chaos.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

There is nothing left for Mankind but a Republic.

I have some fears for our South American brethren; the qualifications for self-government are not innate. They are the result of habit and long training, and for these they will require time and probably much suffering.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

A republic—if you can keep it.

Arts are a luxury, proof that a civilization has risen above 'politics and war.'

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

Liberty, Not the Daughter but the Mother of Order.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

Democracy is always frustrating.

India has remained a full, functioning democracy.

Liberty is a product of order.

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted authority to enforce an optional obedience.

The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.