International Democracy day is celebrated Sept. 15 for giving an opportunity to the people to review the state of democracy in the world, according to the United Nations.

It is also for everyone in a democracy to appreciate the importance of an authority led by people.

Here are some international day of democracy quotes to mark the day.

1. “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
― Isaac Asimov

2. “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

3. “Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.”
― Abraham Lincoln

4. “Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”
― Howard Zinn

5. “The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”
― Franklin D. Roosevelt

6. “In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.”
― George Washington

7. “Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

8. “Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”
― Adam Smith

9. “Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.”
― Naomi Klein

10. “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
― Abraham Lincoln

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