Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. MenckenWe are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.
Thomas JeffersonThe philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham LincolnTo acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Bertrand RussellAnything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
Will RogersKeep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.
EpictetusIt may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.
George WashingtonOrder without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore RooseveltThe voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.
David ByrneDemocracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. MenckenWhatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.
Alexander the GreatWe cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.
Barack ObamaWe can’t have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don’t mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.
Barack ObamaGovernment of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham LincolnI am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
Narendra ModiTradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.
Barack ObamaWe are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWe will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.
Madeleine AlbrightThis nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.
Joe BidenIn my view of the present aspect of affairs, there is no need of bloodshed and war. There is no necessity for it. I am not in favor of such a course, and I may say in advance, there will be no blood shed unless it be forced upon the government. The government will not use force unless force is used against it.
Abraham LincolnIn framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.
Alexander HamiltonI don’t think generally politician come from democratic country. I think not that thinking. But sometimes little bit short-sighted. They are mainly looking for their next vote.
Dalai LamaThe people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham LincolnIt is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas CarlyleDomestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. KennedyWe all need to start making some changes to how our families eat. Now, everyone loves a good Sunday dinner. Me included. And there’s nothing wrong with that. The problem is when we eat Sunday dinner Monday through Saturday.
Michelle ObamaI believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.
Hunter S. ThompsonThere’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘
Noam ChomskyIf you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don’t get wet you can keep.
Will RogersThe time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.
Richard M. NixonTo Marines, love of liberty is not an empty phrase… Rather, it’s displayed by blood, sweat, and tears for the fallen.
Jim MattisNo party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy – well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I’m President, I never will.
Barack ObamaI’m going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we’ve had in a couple of hundred years.
Dan QuayleI have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.
Noam ChomskyI’m the only president you’ve got.
Lyndon B. JohnsonLiberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund BurkeLaw and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.
Martin Luther King, Jr.By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert CamusWater, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.
Mark TwainWe are a nation founded as a rebuke to tyranny. A nation of revolutionaries who refused sovereign reign from afar. Hear me – we’re a nation that says give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. A nation built on our differences, guided by the belief that we’re all created equal.
Michelle ObamaWhile democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine AlbrightBe thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.
Will RogersBut do I think that our actions in anyway violate the War Powers Resolution, the answer is no.
Barack ObamaThe internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.
James MadisonLet us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.
Alexander HamiltonThe virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleThe U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.
Noam ChomskyWhen I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.
Alice WalkerWhenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
Thomas JeffersonThings in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.
Will RogersI found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office.
Barack ObamaWe here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Abraham LincolnIt will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.
James MadisonThe rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.
James MadisonThey who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin FranklinI don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.
Kendrick LamarMy job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.
Barack ObamaToo much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.
Blaise PascalI do not believe that government should be in the business of telling women what they should do with their bodies.
Kamala Harris