Democracy Lost Quotes

#1. When political authority and journalism colluded with one another, democracy lost its ability to critique and cleanse itself, allowing a deadly infection to take root.

Yoshiki Tanaka

#2. A nation is truly corrupted when having ... lost its character and it's liberty, it passes from democracy to aristocracy or to monarchy. That is the decrepitude and death of the body politic ...

Maximilien De Robespierre

#3. Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy

Munia Khan

#4. The values and voices of democracy are silent. Either we have lost touch with those values or, no better, believe they need not or cannot be taught.

Elizabeth Coleman

#5. The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.

Tom Lantos

#6. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#7. As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#8. After installing friendly leaders in Iran and Guatemala, the United States lost interest in promoting democracy in either country.

Stephen Kinzer

#9. In remembering those who lost their lives in the London attacks and the September 11th attacks we continue our commitment to fighting for freedom, democracy and justice.

Doc Hastings

#10. America is stronger than ever. We will forever remember those we lost on September 11, 2001. In honoring their memory, we will remain true to our commitment to freedom and democracy.

Evan Bayh

#11. With growing exploitation, until they fought slavery to save democracy and then lost democracy in a new and vaster slavery.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#12. He believed that the earth is flat, that the English are the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, and that the United States is a democracy.

Sinclair Lewis

#13. The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.

William Beveridge

#14. Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

William H. Hastie

#15. If left unattended by nonvigilant citizens, the freedoms of democracy can be lost to an all-powerful state, and citizens can become transformed into subjects of the government they failed to keep in check.

Christine Barbour