23 Movie Quotes about Democracy (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Oct 1, 2025

Memorable quotes about democracy, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 What if the democracy we thought we were serving no longer exists, and the Republic has become the very evil we've been fighting to destroy?

Natalie Portman as Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

2 I know they don't trust you. -Hmm. Or the senate. Or the Republic. Or democracy, for that matter.

Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

3 You gonna be a democracy in this country? You gonna have a parliament? -I will tell you that when I have a country.

Claude Rains as Mr. Dryden; Arthur Kennedy as Jackson Bentley in Lawrence of Arabia

4 In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)

5 This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law.

Denzel Washington as Coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans

6 I'm glad I'm part of such a democratic system, sir. This all restores my faith in good government.

Marcie From Charlie Brown in Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown

7 Anakin, my allegiance is to the Republic, to democracy!

Ewan McGregor as Obi Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

8 I will tell you what democracy is! Democracy is the worst! Endless talking and listening to every stupid opinion! And everybody's vote counts, no matter how crippled or black or female they are.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Admiral General Aladeen in The Dictator (2012)

9 Authority should derive from the consent of the governed, not from the threat of force.

Jodi Benson as Barbie in Toy Story 3

10 China is a democracy, too.

Bobby Lee in The Dictator (2012)

23 Movie Quotes about Democracy (+ Sound Clips)

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