Festus Mogae Quotes

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

American democracy is at its best in its talent for the transfer for power.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

Democracy cannot be created out of thin air

We are a democracy and I will go with the 51 percent wherever that leads us.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

It is assumed in many parts of the world that democracy is a group of people facing a certain problem, who come together to solve it in a way where everyone has an equal say.

What if democracy does not serve liberty? This question is seldom asked in the West, where democracy is often seen as synonymous with liberalism.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

... a cure for the evils of universal democracy.

The method of democracy is to bring ... conflicts out into the open where their special claims can be seen and appraised, where they can be discussed and judged.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded ...

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

Democracy is not an end but the means to the conquest of the new state. When the time comes, either Parliament submits or we will eliminate Parliament.

No idea holds greater sway in the minds of educated Americans that the belief that it is possible to democratize governments anytime and anywhere under any circumstances .