Democracy Quotes

"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." "How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined" "We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties" "Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America." "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois" "Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once." "Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich—that is the democracy of capitalist society" "Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure" "Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame" "I think the government must govern as the citizens allow it to govern."