Quotes About Democracy

**(C)(P) FROM MY BOOK-BOWEL SOUNDS AMERICA. WHY ARE THE KILLERS OF YOUR PEOPLE WALKING FREE? MASS INCARCERATION DOMINATES THE POOR IN PRISONS. NO REAL PROTECTION FOR YOU AND ME AND YOUR DEMOCRACY.INSURRECTIONS ABOUND WHILE DEMOCRACY UNDERMINE, MANY HOPING IT WILL DISAPPEAR IN JUST A MATTER OF TIME. WAKE UP AMERICA!

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

Since militia units in most cases elected their noncommissioned officers, the men who served in these positions could not be too harsh or arbitrary. Democracy in the army? A new and strange concept, indeed.

And that was the ultimate sting of democracy, you see: the insane idea that one man's ignorance was just as worthy as another man's knowledge. The ludicrous idea that the vote of the uniformed is just as valid as that of the educated.

They bragged about democracy and demonized countries that didn't have it, but they didn't really believe in democracy. They believed in hypocrisy. Their moral compass had spun out of control, from the very top down.

People who are elected by the people need to remember they need to listen to the people.

Republican government - self-government by the people - is at the heart of what it means to be free.

You cannot have a government for and by the people if it is not represented by all of the people.

In a democracy, nothing is more sacred than the mandate given by the people.

Having an election with only one candidate running is impossible. This is not a democracy.

Americans want to be represented by the best candidate, not the one with the richest friends.

I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.

Candidates seeking the highest office in our government deserve the opportunity to be fully heard.

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

This young century will be liberty's century.

Challenging leaders is as American as it gets.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

I think there is a role for non-violent direct action when democratic channels have failed.

Elections don't come cheap.

Athletes have the same rights everybody else does. If there is a strength in our democracy, it's that we are encouraged to exercise those rights and speak out and hold people in power in check.

The important matter is freedom. When the people choose what they want, it is good for them and for us.