Democracy Quotes

"The ultimate authority, wherever the derivative may be found, resides in the people alone" "If our nation is ever taken over, it will be taken over from within" "War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to sustain its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits. " "In our governments, the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the government is the mere instrument of the major number of the constituents." "O, let my land be a land where Liberty " "It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once" "If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved" "A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person" "The interests of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place" "In a republic this rule ought to be observed, that the majority should not have the predominant power."