Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

Too many of us now tend to worship self indulgence and consumption.

My Democratic friends just can’t accept the fact that the American people chose Donald Trump to be president – it’s called democracy. My advice to them, and I say this gently: Fill out a ‚Hurt Feelings Report‘ and let’s move on.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I’m glad I can’t vote.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

The New Deal repudiation of democracy has left the Republican Party alone the guardian of the Ark of the Covenant with its charter of freedom.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

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.

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their voice doesn’t matter; that the system is rigged in favor of the rich or the powerful or some narrow interest.

No 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.

I don’t vote. I don’t do no voting.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

You can’t put democracy and freedom back into a box.

As for our great King, when we venture into His presence, let us have a purpose there. Let us beware of playing at praying; it is insolence toward God.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

In the 21st century, the countries that thrive will be the ones where citizens know their voices will be heard because the institutions are transparent.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

Women fight for democracy and engage in the world. But they shouldn’t try and be copying men and be masculine; they should anchor on the home and build on those fundamentals.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

A man without a vote is man without protection.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‚darkness‘ on the walls of his cell.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be ‚Citizens United.‘ I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom is to be preserved.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.