Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought.

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

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

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

Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.

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.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

In democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...

Democracy is like a street car. You get off when you reach your destination.

We live in a democratic country, and in a democracy freedom of speech is for the people and also for the leaders.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.

The United States of America stands for: the ability for people to worship freely, the ability for people to vote and to express their opinion freely is something we hold dear.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.