William Bankshead Quotes

I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober, second thought of the people shall be law.

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

The wastes of democracy are among the greatest obvious wastes, but we have compensations in democracy which far outweigh that waste and make it more efficient than absolutism.

the only vehicle through which we can get a clear-cut and unequivocal decision of the people.]

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

I believe in war, if the people want war. They have to do the fighting. I believe, first, in a referendum to the people, and failing that, a decision by the people's representatives in Congress assembled.

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

would be an extremely dangerous thing in a democracy.

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

In a democracy, voting is a huge and most important right of a common man.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a vote, but also that the minority needs to yield to the wishes of the majority.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

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

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

It's true that most American citizens think of themselves as living in a democratic country. But when was the last time that any Americans actually sat down and came to a collective decision? Maybe if they are ordering pizzas, but basically never.

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

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.