Democracy 101
Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.
Alastair Farrugia
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.
Alice Walker
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.
Andrejs Upits
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Aristotle
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
A democrat need not believe that the majority will always reach a wise decision. He should however believe in the necessity of accepting the decision of the majority, be it wise or unwise, until such a time that the majority reaches another decision.
Bertrand Russell
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles DeGaulle
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
Dave Barry
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
Edmuns Burke
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.
Edvard Teller
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
Edward Abbey
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.
Eugene McCarthy
It's dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them.
Frederick Douglass
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning.
Frederick Douglass
You can never have a revolution in order to establish democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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