“Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...”
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
Franklin Pierce Adams
“I will feel equality has arrived when we can elect to office women who are as incompetent as some of the men who are already there”
Maureen Reagan
“They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You tend to lose the habit.”
Chinua Achebe
“Elections without any opposition and with low turnout aren't good for anyone, not least the government, which should evaluate the anti-democratic impact.”
Teodoro Petkoff
“Without general elections, without unrestricted freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution, becomes a mere semblance of life, in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element. Public life gradually falls asleep, a few dozen party leaders of inexhaustible energy and boundless experience direct and rule. Such conditions must inevitably cause a brutalization of public life: attempted assassinations, shootings of hostages, etc.”
Rosa Luxemburg
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