Quotes about Democracy

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

It's overwhelmingly in the self-interest of the United States of America to have a secure, democratic friend, a strategic partner like Israel.

The United States of America has been great because it has been free.

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we have a hard time holding on to. They provide a space to question whatever we are doing in the name of things we say we believe in or might believe in.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite

Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.

The House of Commons did not originate as a matter of right in the people to delegate or elect, but as a grant or boon.

The government of a free country, properly speaking, is not in the persons, but in the laws.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.