Democracy Quotes

"In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority" "To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy" "The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments" "I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me" "If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." "In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." "A people free to choose will always choose peace" "Liberty is the breath of life to nations." "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used" "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors" "Democracy in any meaningful sense of the term doesn't mean that citizens have the right to choose between two rich people who represent basically the same interests. " "Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. " "Apathy is the enemy of democracy." "The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people." "The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves " "A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people" "The capacity for self-government and the determination to protect their own liberties must resist usurpations as well as avoid making them " "The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over its government" "To some degree, it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public." "Our American dream is under siege because our government has been hijacked by special interests and used as a weapon against common citizens. The people must be sovereign."