Nothing conceivable is so petty, so insipid, so crowded with paltry interests, in one word, so anti-poetic, as the life of a man in the United States.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

My definition of democracy is – A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest...

People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

What we’ve seen is the loss of democracy as we know it, … It’s poor public policy that somebody loses their seat based upon a fraud.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no

One of the arguments that authoritarian governments use to ward off the call for greater political freedom is to argue that American-style democracy is no guarantee of good policy…. Over the years, I’ve grown used...

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pistol shot.

If large numbers of people believe in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it. But if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if...

He’s coming here to strengthen a military regime that claims it is establishing democracy. Who is he trying to fool?

Our forefathers were not only brave. I believe they were right. I believe that what they meant was that every man born had equal right to grow from scratch by way of his own power...

They shouldnt teach their immigrants’ kids all about democracy unless they mean to let them have a little bit of it, it ony makes for trouble. Me and the United States is dissociating our alliance...

No, young man. What you see is hell with the lid taken off.” — Mother Jones

Wir sind das Volk!”Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die...

Nothing—not even the US Army—more threatens the future of a democratic, pluralistic and (dare we wish, secular) Iraq than the political ascendancy of Islamic fascists like Al Sadr.

persons” with constitutional rights and freedoms of their own, but legal fictions that we created and must therefore control.

If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.

And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?

Here’s what we’re not taught [about the Declaration and Constitution]: Those words at the time they were written were blazingly, electrifyingly subversive. If you understand them truly now, they still are. You are not taught...

In the first decade of the twenty-first century, the major international question was the relation between Islam and democracy.

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.

In a democracy, someone who fails to get elected to office can always console himself with the thought that there was something not quite fair about it.

The candidates also know we have experience of democracy, those of us who live here. We know what to listen for. We know if anything they’re saying makes sense. So they come here and they...

We expected that with electoral democracy there would be a trickle down of positive effects. That did not happen.

As our technological capacities continue to increase and our environment becomes ever more fragile and endangered, we find that changes to the Earth that used to take ten thousand years now take a fraction of...

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Der Endzweck des Staates ist […] im Grund die Freiheit.

The foremost, or indeed the sole condition, which is required in order to succeed in centralizing the supreme power in a democratic community, is to love equality, or to get men to believe you love...

Here we are in the midst of a revolution in Israeli politics. Our great national leader is crippled?and there is no crisis. Power is passed quietly. Our enemies don’t stir. Our stock market barely moves....

Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and murdered by a politician.

As a veteran, I know firsthand the satisfaction there is in defending the democracy you so strongly believe in, but I can also attest to the trauma encountered from combat on the battlefield.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in...

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.

With the Chinese there are no strings attached. They don’t talk to you about democracy or reform. They give money, the Saudis give oil and there are no hidden agendas. The Saudis find those kinds...

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

I was thinking about honour. It’s a thing that changes doesn’t it? I mean, a hundred and fifty years ago we would have had to fight if challenged. Now we’d laugh. There must have been...

Jeans represent democracy in fashion.

The Western post-Christian civilization has picked up the Christ without His Cross. But a Christ without a sacrifice that reconciles the world to God is a cheap, colorless, itinerant preacher who deserves to be popular...

I believe that without free enterprise there can be no democracy

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

Democracy fascinates me.

And when I speak, I don’t speak as a Democrat. Or a Republican. Nor an American. I speak as a victim of America’s so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy – all we’ve...

I really am a pessimist. I’ve always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It’s something essentially splendid because it’s not at all routine or automatic. Fascism...

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty.

A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel’s work and is on...