Democracy Foundation Quotes

As if they could foresee the unforeseeable, the founding fathers laid down principles that have served to prevent the transformation of individual to manipulable quantity, of citizen to subject.

The working people are the basis of all government, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous.

Next to the Bible, I think the Constitution is the most important document ever written.

Please continue to voice your beliefs, as your participation is the foundation of our country's democracy.

The most difficult thing to build up is the rule of law. America already had it when their nation began.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none can be protected.

America's elections are the foundation of our democracy - so protecting them is a priority for the FBI and our partners.

Law matters, because it keeps us safe, because it protects our most fundamental rights and freedoms, and because it is the foundation of our democracy.

One of my beliefs very strongly is that any democracy depends on a free, healthy press.

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

We must ensure that these acts of terror do not accomplish in a slow burn what the fires of the World Trade Center and Pentagon could not - subversively destroying the foundation of our democracy.

Our founding fathers recognized that morality was the foundation of a successful republic.

The least we can do is to respect the Constitution because that's the foundation on which our republic is built. If you give the Constitution the go-by, your republic will be under stress.

The cement in our whole democracy today is the worker who makes $ 15 an hour. He's the guy who will buy a house and a car and a refrigerator. He's the oil in the engine.

The Founding Father expressed in words for all to read the ideal of Government based upon the dignity of the individual. That ideal previously had existed only in the hearts and minds of men. They produced the timeless documents upon which the Nation is rounded and has grown great. They, recognizing God as the author of individual fights, declared that the purpose of Government is to secure those rights.

The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.