Country Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Men by their constitutions are naturally divided into two parties: 1. Those who fear and distrust the people, and wish to draw all powers…

— Thomas Jefferson

At the most basic level, if men have institutional power, they have tremendous influence to change those institutions.

— Meena Harris

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

International institutions ought to be, as the national ones in democratic countries, established by the peoples and for the peoples

— Henri La Fontaine

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had…

— Vilfredo Pareto

..(T)here are two opposite reasons for being a democrat. You may think all men so good that they deserve a share in the government…

— C. S. Lewis

It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to…

— Alexander Hamilton

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country to decide, by their conduct and…

— Alexander Hamilton

“I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public…

— Thomas Paine