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A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

Fisher Ames

Democracy

Destruction

Will

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Madeleine Albright

Government

Democracy

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

Taiwan is a budding democracy, and the people have participated in multi-party democratic elections since 1996.

The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

John Adams

Democracy

Suicide

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Far from being the product of a democratic revolution and of an opposition to English institutions, the constitution of the United States was the result of a powerful reaction against democracy, and in favor of the traditions of the mother country.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

If a jerk burns the flag, America is not threatened, democracy is not under siege, freedom is not at risk.

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again.

Chinua Achebe

Democracy

Years