Benefits Quote by Peter Boettke

A democratic public forms when citizens gather together to deliberate and make public judgments about local and national issues that affect their lives. By…

— Kevin Mattson

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

“Under its sway the transactions of the public administration are not nearly so important as what is done by private exertion. Democracy does not…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The best defence [for a democracy, for the public good] is aggressiveness, the aggressiveness of the involved citizen. We need to reassert that slow,…

— John Ralston Saul

The way you get democracy to function is by informing the public.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of…

— Eli Pariser

In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented…

— Martin Van Buren

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

— Ludwig von Mises

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.

— Michael J. Knowles

There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that, if you will only legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, their prosperity…

— William Jennings Bryan

The best measure of how a democracy is functioning is how it allocates the goods of the land, the public trust assets.

— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr