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Democracy Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
- It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
- My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just
- An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.
- The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
- Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity
- Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.
- A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.
- And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in…
- Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property…
- We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they…
- If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
- Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into…
- Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.
- That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
- Information is the currency of democracy.
- The end of democracy and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
- A government afraid of its citizens is a Democracy. Citizens afraid of government is tyranny!
- A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
- The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
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