Top 40 Democracy Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Government Quotes

2. “Democracy is “government of, by and for the people”.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Government Quotes

3. “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Past Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

4. “Do not think your single vote does not matter much. The rain that refreshes the parched ground is made up of single drops.”

— Kate Sheppard

5. “Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.”

— John Dewey

Also featured in: Education Quotes

6. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Mead

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Wise Quotes

7. “Yes We Can!”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Winning Quotes, Effort Quotes, Quotes About Believing

8. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Thought Provoking Quotes

9. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Kindness Quotes

10. “Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Wise Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Past Quotes

11. “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Opportunity Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Important Quotes

12. “We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Future Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Vision Quotes, Progress Quotes

13. “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”

— Ronald Reagan

Also featured in: Fighting Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Government Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

14. “My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes, Greatness Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes, Government Quotes

15. “Your voice can change the world.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Moving Quotes, Quotes About the World

16. “You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure...”

— Charlie Chaplin

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Freedom Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Adventure Quotes

17. “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, History Quotes, Government Quotes

18. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

Also featured in: Helping Others Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Responsibility Quotes

19. “If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”

— George Washington

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes, History Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes

20. “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes

21. “Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Government Quotes

22. “Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Quotes About Hope, Vision Quotes

23. “People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

— Alan Moore

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes

24. “Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.”

— Barack Obama

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Justice Quotes, Government Quotes

25. “Rise like Lions after slumber In unvanquishable number- Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many-they are few.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Changing the World Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Victory Quotes, Freedom Quotes

26. “I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people’s politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Also featured in: Truth Quotes

27. “In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Individuality Quotes

28. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”

— Abraham Lincoln

29. “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.”

— Barack Obama

30. “When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

31. “The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.”

— Abdul Kalam

32. “The equal rights of man, and the happiness of every individual, are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.”

— Thomas Jefferson

Also featured in: Quotes on Liberty, Principles And Laws

33. “Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”

— Walter Cronkite

Also featured in: Quotes on Liberty

34. “The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

35. “The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power.”

— Wael Ghonim

36. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

— S.G. Tallentyre

Also featured in: Quotes on Liberty

37. “I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Moving Quotes, Justice Quotes, History Quotes

38. “Democracy is not a spectator sport.”

— Marian Wright Edelman

39. “I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments.”

— Carl Sagan

Also featured in: Quotes About Thinking, Doubt Quotes

40. “If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain.”

— George Carlin

Also featured in: Complaining Quotes