The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
- Aristotle


Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
- Mahatma Gandhi


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


What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
- Mahatma Gandhi


If the Soviet empire still existed, I'd be terrified. The fact is, we can afford a fairly ignorant presidency now.
- Newt Gingrich


A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- Thomas Jefferson


I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson


Information is the currency of democracy.
- Thomas Jefferson


The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
- Thomas Jefferson


As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln


Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
- Abraham Lincoln


Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.
- John McCain


We have lost the understanding that in a democracy, we have a mutual obligation to one another - that we cannot measure the greatness of our society by the strongest and richest of us, but we have to measure our greatness by the least of these.
- Michelle Obama


Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
- Ronald Reagan


Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
- Ronald Reagan


Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
- George Washington