Democracy

"We must hold to a rigid accountability those public servants who show unfaithfulness to the interests of the nation or inability to rise to the high level of the new demands upon our strength and our resources."

"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it."

"All people are born alike except Republicans and Democrats."

"In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution."

"A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."

"To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."

"Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters."

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

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent."