Democracy Quotes

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government – lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Not all Democrats are the same.

The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind] and believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

Well, when I went off to college, the guys I used to hang with were pumping gas and voting Democrat. Today they’re still pumping gas and voting Democrat. Guess the Democrats didn’t do much for them.