“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
Ronald Reagan
“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
Anatole France
“Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed”
Thomas Jefferson
“Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.”
Alastair Farrugia
“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
Bernard Shaw
“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
James Russell Lowell
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
Abraham Lincoln