Nawaz Sharif Quotes

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

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

Liberty does not exist where rights are on one side and power on the other. To be liberty, rights must be armed with vital powers. A people cannot be free who do not participate in the control of the government which operates upon them.

To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

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

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

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

The public has to have a head, and if the President takes the heads away, the public will have his.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

Our democracy is designed to speak truth to power.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us.

U.S.A. is the speech of the people.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

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.

The right and the physical power of the people to resist injustice, are really the only securities that any people ever can have for their liberties. Practically no government knows any limit to its power but the endurance of the people.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Democracy is a good client.

The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

I think, at times of stress, you have to trust the pillars of democracy.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.