Michael Dobbs Quotes

Free elections are only one part of democracy. Constraint on the power of government and the rule of law and the institutions of democracy are just as important.

Democracy is far more than merely participating in free and fair elections for a new government. It is about playing by a set of rules, respecting those rules and accepting the result even when it may not be what one had hoped for.

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

Democracy is more than just election day.

Citizens everywhere should be able to choose their leaders in climates free of fear.

Democracies do not begin and end with elections.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Free integral elections should be guaranteed, where values of justice and rule of law also prevail.

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

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

Democracies are much better at adapting to modernization than other systems.

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

However, democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

If you can exchange information freely, isn’t that almost a definition of democracy.

Democracy is far more complex than simply choosing the people who govern you.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

A democracy requires a certain amount of common ground.

What we are seeing here is democracy in action.

Elections alone will never be enough to ensure good governance.

In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.

A democratic government must always be left free to be operated upon by the will of the majority of the time being. All that the government of the day can do is to ascertain what now appears to be the best principle.