25 result(s) for Quotes About Compromising The Democratic System.
"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others."
"The erosion of freedom in one realm inevitably leads to the erosion of freedom in all."
"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few."
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within."
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
"Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote."
"Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny."
"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"Democracy is not the law of the majority but protection of the minority."
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."
"It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority."
"The erosion of civil liberties is always gradual."
"A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither."
"Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it."
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"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive."
