Amount Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

If the blessings of our political and social condition have not been too highly estimated, we cannot well overrate the responsibility and duty which…

— Daniel Webster

The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.

— Arlen Specter

To have a free, peaceful and prosperous world we must be ever stronger particularly in the spiritual things....It is American belief in decency and…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The human heart is the first home of democracy. It is where we embrace our questions. Can we be equitable? Can we be generous?…

— Terry Tempest Williams

We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no majority, no…

— Michael Joseph Oakeshott

What we do flows from who we are.

— Charles Colson

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties:…

— Gaetano Mosca

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

— George Berkeley

“By a constitutional policy, working after the pattern of nature, we receive, we hold, we transmit our government and our privileges, in the same…

— Edmund Burke

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only…

— John Dewey

We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the…

— Vicente Fox

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.

— Augusto Pinochet