Denzil Douglas Quotes

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Democracy is a good client.

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.

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

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

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

All free governments are party governments.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

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

Democracy in a nation of 300 million people can be noisy and messy and complicated. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy. That's just how it is.

However flawed democracy is, it is still the only answer.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

I come from election, I come from the people. I owe gratitude to our people. I do everything for the good of the country and the people.

I'm just the democratic voice of Bolivia.

No country is free unless it is democratic.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Indian democracy has often been likened to the stately progress of the elephant - ponderous in its gait and reluctant to change course, but not easily swayed from its new path when it does.

We believe that this is not right for a democracy to make revolutions the beacon of promoting democracy.

We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.