It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

I 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.

Every President wants to do right.

George Bush made a mistake when he referred to the Saddam Hussein regime as ‚evil.‘ Every liberal and leftist knows how to titter at such black-and-white moral absolutism.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

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

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood – rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky – they all turn out in one day.

Our country was founded by geniuses, but it’s being run by idiots.

I know the Federal Reserve Bank can continue to print more and more money… but city and state governments cannot.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

In Kosovo, the U.S. has chosen a course of action that escalates atrocities and violence. It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

If the government ever imposes a tax on books – and I wouldn’t put it past them – I’m in dead trouble.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

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.

All the blood is drained out of democracy – it dies – when only half the population votes.

I go for all sharing the privileges of the government, who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently, I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage, who pay taxes or bear arms (by no means excluding females).

The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!

The question really is, are you improving the world? And you can do that in many models. You can do that in government, you can do that in a nonprofit, and you can do it in commercial enterprise.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

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

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world – no ideals.

It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

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

This young century will be liberty’s century.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Democracy is our commitment. It is our great legacy, a legacy we simply cannot compromise. Democracy is in our DNA.

We 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.

Since I’m the president and Democrats have controlled the House and the Senate, it’s understandable that people are saying, you know, ‚What have you done?‘

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

In my opinion eight years as president is enough and sometimes too much for any man to serve in that capacity.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

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.

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.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

It 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.