Quotes about Democracy
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
— Thomas Paine
With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.
— Eric Metaxas
The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.
— John Adams
The power under the Constitution will always be in the people.
— George Washington
The virtue of its Citizens is the only Support of a Republican government.
— William Henry Harrison
Without God, democracy cannot and will not long endure.
— Ronald Reagan
The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!
— Herman Melville
It may well happen that the public voice, pronounced by the representatives of the people, will be more constant to the public good than if pronounced by the people themselves.
— James Madison