The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.
Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.
Men and women in my lifetime have died fighting for the right to vote: people like James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, who were murdered while registering black voters in Mississippi in 1964, and Viola Liuzzo, who was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 during the Selma march for voting rights.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
I think that when Americans go to vote, states should not list what party the candidates are affiliated with. That would require voters to actually think and get to know a candidate instead of voting for their favorite gang. 'Oh, this guy is a Republican, so he must be good.'
Voters will decide how they want to be governed.
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.
The European Union, which is not directly responsible to voters, provides an irresistible opportunity for European elites to seize power in order to impose their own vision on a newly socially regimented Europe.
or simply: