democracy Quotes

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?'

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.