Democracy Quote by Niccolò Machiavelli

“Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting…

— William Graham Sumner

“On the other hand, in the presence of tyrants and obstinate opposers, use your liberty in their despite, and with the utmost pertinacity, that…

— Martin Luther

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…

— Gene Sharp

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.”

— Charles River Editors

“On the other hand, it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty; that, in the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“Liberty limited by law is the cornerstone of civilization.”

— David Jeremiah

“to be a government of "liberty regulated by law," with such results in the development of strength, in population, wealth, and military and commercial…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty.”

— Alexander Hamilton

"It astonishes me to find... [that so many] of our countrymen... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors…

— Thomas Jefferson

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams