Ann Richards Quotes

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

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

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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 known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

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

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

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Democracy is a good client.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

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

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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

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.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.