Democracy

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

"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."

"I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism."

"Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."

"Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe."

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

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

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

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

"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."

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

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