Quotes about Democracy
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
It's nice to have four years between elections. It takes people that long to regain their faith.
- Anonymous
The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.
- Roger Williams
Kings and magistrates are invested with no more power than the people entrust to them.
- Roger Williams
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy
- Barack Obama
What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.
- Thomas Paine
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
- Thomas Paine
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
- Eric Metaxas
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
- John Adams
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
- George Washington
The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.
- William Henry Harrison
Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
- Ronald Reagan