Democracy Principles Quotes

I have been a Democrat all my life and accustomed to the rule of the majority. If a majority of this crowd want me to stop speaking, I will stop. If the majority want me to continue, I will speak on regardless of you and your company.

What is the basic principle of democracy? In the end, it is loyalty to the nation. We Central Europeans know from historical experience that sooner or later, we will lose our freedom if we do not represent the interests of our citizens.

It is part of our political thinking that democracy is a battle of ideas.

Turkey shares Europe's fundamental values of democracy and the rule of law.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist…. no one since Thomas Jefferson ... has really believed it.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

The principles upon which democracy rests are as everlasting as the hills, but they must be applied to new conditions as they arise.

The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free press, the priority of the individual over mythical state interests, a state which serves the interests of ordinary people and defends their rights and interests. This is all easy to say but hard to make reality.

If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.

Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy.

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time

A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.

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

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

It was in that uncertain world that the European Convention on Human Rights was shaped. Written by Conservatives, it set out the principles which should lie behind a modern democratic state, where human rights were respected.

The voters of Hawaii have said loud and clear that it's not money that wins elections.

The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.

Our founding fathers made no mistake when they included the right to peaceably assemble among the first tenets of democracy.

The elections would be free and democratic, and any result would have to be accepted.

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.