I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.
George Soros

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Allen Ginsberg

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice."
Sophocles

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster

My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state into the private realm - as in abortion, sodomy, prostitution, pornography, drug use, or suicide, all of which I would strongly defend as matters of free choice in a representative democracy.
Camille Paglia

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.
Rosa Luxemburg

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Rosa Luxemburg

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
Rosa Luxemburg

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.
John Acton

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.
John Acton

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.
Hugo Chavez

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell

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.
Madeleine Albright

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

We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy.
Joni Mitchell

I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.
A. J. Liebling