Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid.
Ronald Reagan
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.
Bernard Baruch
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.
Abraham Lincoln
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Aristotle
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
Jefferson Davis
