25 result(s) for Democracy Quotes About Legal Change.
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
"In a democracy, the people choose their leader. In a dictatorship, the leader chooses the people."
"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
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"Democracy is not merely a form of government; it is primarily a pattern of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience."
"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
"Democracy requires that the rich be rendered neither so powerful as to be above the law, nor the poor so desperate as to be beneath it."
"Where law ends, tyranny begins."
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
"One of the greatest dangers to liberty today is the concentration of power in the hands of a few, particularly in the executive branch."
"Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."
"Justice delayed is justice denied."
"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice."
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
"A law is valuable, not because it is law, but because there is right in it."
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"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
"I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution."
"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
"Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve."
