22 Movie Quotes about Democracy (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: July 6, 2025

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

11 I've called it 'An American Dilemma'... the dilemma is whether Americans are going toward democracy and freedom or backwards to colonial thinking!

Quote from Destination Freedom

12 A box score. You know, a box score is really democratic, Jackie. It doesn't say how big you are, or how your father voted in the last election, or what church you attend. It just tells you what kind of a ballplayer you were that day.

Minor Watson as Branch Rickey in The Jackie Robinson Story

13 All right, men. I respect your right to petition. But I do question and I will fight any petition that denies any American the right to earn his living in the game that is supposed to represent the democratic principles of sportsmanship and fair play!

Minor Watson as Branch Rickey in The Jackie Robinson Story

14 I have lunch with anybody, I'm democratic. I'll even have lunch with you.

Quote from The Big Combo (1955)

15 I'm not fooled because I've had a chance open to very few Negro Americans, but I do know that democracy works for those who are willing to fight for it, and I'm sure it's worth defending.

Jackie Robinson as Himself in The Jackie Robinson Story

16 We invented democracy, existentialism and the blowjob.

Sacha Baron Cohen as Jean Girard in Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

17 Democracy looks like a midget in a chemo wig.

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

18 Democracy, your mother called the other day and I forgot to give you the message. It was something very important about your grandmother.

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

19 I'm not saying he's not right, sir. Democracy is what we fought Hitler for, it's quite a few lads we lost in this village fighting the war including our son here. Dunkirk.

Quote from The Remains of the Day

20 All right. Now, who's for the Bill of Rights? Who thinks freedom is a pretty darn good thing?

Amy Madigan as Annie Kinsella in Field of Dreams (1989)