Citizens Quote by Alexander Hamilton

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind is closed, the leader…

— Julius Caesar

“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies…

— James Madison

They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free.…

— Plato

You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their…

— Anonymous

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?…

— Thomas Jefferson

If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices…

— Tony Benn

External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

— Carl B. Hamilton

“Thinking citizens are no good to democracy, either you obey blind or be branded a terrorist. Either you hold your mouth, mind and backbone,…

— Abhijit Naskar

The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated to them…

— Fisher Ames