Thomas Wilson Dorr Quotes

The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't.

We have to worry about protecting the Constitution.

[Describing America:] Public opinion, which is there omnipotent, is generally right in its aims ...

… take the Constitution out of cold storage!

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

The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.

The Framers of the Constitution knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution. But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

This is a time for a national conversation. A conversation about the document that binds us as a nation and a people. That document, of course, is the Constitution.

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

When women are pessimistic about their political strength and feel hopeless about changing the conditions of their lives, it is almost as if they do not believe that democracy means the country belongs to them. But it's true.

Democratic reform, depends less on legislative amendments than on creating a climate of democracy.

The Constitution means that each one of us counts.

To say that sovereignty vests with the people, and that they have not a right to instruct and control their representative is absurd to the last degree.

Let The People Rule

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

The essential democracy of our Nation and the safety of our people depend not upon the absence of power, but upon lodging it with those whom the people can change or continue at stated intervals through an honest and free system of elections

The authority of the people is a necessary foundation for a constitution

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

If we want to change a law, we can do that in Parliament. That is a democratic right that has often been taken from the E.U.

When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution.

Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.