Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Democracy is good for everybody.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The core idea that underlies all of our democratic states, the core political idea, is this idea that it's not that one person is the sovereign; it's that all of the people are sovereign.

Minority rights are just as important as majority decisions.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

Government of the people and for the people.

Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men's enlightened will.

Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy.

We can conceive of various kinds of democracy.

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

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

I've made the comment that democracies work slower than dictatorships. That's a true thing.

You can't run this nation like a town meeting.

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

Democracy is not tolerance. Democracy is a prescribed way of life erected on the premise that all men are created equal.

Democracy is always frustrating.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

We have, on the whole, more liberty and less equality than Russia has. Russia has less liberty and more equality. Whether democracy should be defined primarily in terms of liberty or equality is a source of unending debate.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.