We do not have government by the majority.

Best quotes about american democracy. It soon wastes exhausts and murders itself. To past generations who prevailed against fascism and totalitarianism to women and to African Americans. Alexis de Tocqueville.

Democracy Quotes - BrainyQuote. America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. Alexis de Tocqueville.

Patriotic quotes about voting and democracy. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one feature of good government. Remember democracy never lasts long.

Experience has proved that no position in politics is more false than this. That is not how democracy works in England. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

It has been observed by an honorable gentleman that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting. There is a cult of ignorance in the United States and there has always been.

Events in America show the extent to which democracy there is fuelled by populism - Barack Obamas victory is a manifestation not of Washingtons need for change but of Americas. Casting our vote is fundamental to our democracy. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.