Indira Gandhi Quotes

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

Democracy is the least static form of society. Its basis is reason not authority.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable.

From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.

The birth of democracy in Iraq is one of the great positive changes of our era.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

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

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy or Anti-Democracy

I would hope to glorify freedom and liberty over there [America] in the hope that it may be regained over here [France.]

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

Democracy, once unleashed, is a pretty powerful force.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself—always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.