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)

“I have never looked at foreign countries or gone there but with the purpose of getting to know the general human qualities that are spread all over the earth in very different forms, and then to find these qualities again in my own country and to recognize and to further them.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)