Democracy/countries

Famous quotes containing the words democracy and/or countries:

“In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
—Chris Patten (b. 1944)

“It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshiped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)