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Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
American democracy has been hacked.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Government is best which governs least
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It
That government is best which governs least.
Of the people, by the people, for the people.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Education is a human right with immense power to transform
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.
The greatest task of democracy, its ritual and feast - is choice.
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.
In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
The word democracy has no meaning. Duty has gone. Only rights remain.
No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.
Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.
Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.
