Mel Levine Quotes

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

What is going to rule our great commonwealth, the mob or the law?

We have accepted the principle of democracy and we are committed to respect the popular verdict and the result of that national consultation.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

Mob rule is always extremely dangerous for the future of democracy.

In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.

A society which is liberal democratic cannot have public policy determined upon the basis of who has got the loudest voice - or who can brings things to a halt.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed.

What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

People don't understand democracy here. They think it simply means disobedience to the authorities.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

A State is not morally free to allow anarchy and license ... even if the majority should so desire.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

If you don't have a democracy in which most people feel engaged, you don't have a democracy very long.

Opinion and protest are the life breath of democracy—even when it blows heavy.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

We can not have free government without elections. And if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone a national election, it might fairly claim to have conquered or ruined us.