Democratic Rule Quotes

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country.

No people must be forced under a sovereignty under which it does not wish to live.

Legitimacy [of governments] is not bought by force; it is earned by the consensus of the people.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.

The more people there are, the more things they see, and in them there is a more perceptive and discerning reason than in one person: therefore, in this respect, it is better to be ruled by many

The sovereignty of republics is an historical inevitability.

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

The deed is done, the nail is driven, Spanish America is free; and if we do not mismanage our affairs sadly, she is English

The government in a revolution is the despotism of liberty against tyranny.

The right of the majority is absolute.

I don't think that what we need is an eternal leader.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

Our sovereign, the people.

The people are the masters.

It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.

All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.

A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others.

Tell me if ever in history there was a government which was based exclusively upon the consent of the people, and which was ready to dispense altogether with the use of force. There has never been and never will be such a government.

She will sooner abdicate than send for or have any communication with that half mad firebrand who would soon ruin everything & be a Dictator. Others but herself may submit to his democratic rule but not the Queen.

A confidence problem exists on the part of the people of the region who desire democratic rule in principle, but remain suspicious of both the fashion with which democratization is presented and the purposes of the democratic world.

All authority belongs to the people.

[Referring to Nicaragua's Sandanistas:] A government is not legitimate merely because it exists.

Remember, success for a politician is 50% plus one. You don't have to have everybody on board.

The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.