Quotes about Democracy
Israel is the only democratic country in the Middle East.
- Eli Yishai
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...
- Thomas Jefferson
Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
- Thomas Jefferson
If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.
- Thomas Jefferson
The government you elect is the government you deserve.
- Thomas Jefferson
Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- Thomas Jefferson
That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone. (to Horatio Gates, 1798)
- Thomas Jefferson
Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government
- Thomas Jefferson
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
When a man begins to feel that he is the only one who can lead in this republic, he is guilty of treason to the spirit of our institutions.
- Calvin Coolidge
Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men.
- Calvin Coolidge