“When occasions present themselves in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests to withstand the temporary delusion in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection. Instances might be cited in which a conduct of this kind has saved the people from very fatal consequences of their own mistakes, and has procured lasting monuments of their gratitude to the men who had courage and magnanimity enough to serve them at the peril of their displeasure.”

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.”

Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood.

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.

It's important that we invest in America - literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can't let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

This is pure speculation, but for a period of time, a lot of getting into a party was through fundraising and volunteer work, and Republican women had more time to do that than democratic women, who were out there getting jobs.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

I'll have those niggers voting Democrat for the next 200 years.

It suffices here to say that the planned economy which the advocates of dictatorship wish to set up is precisely as socialistic as the Socialism propagated by the self-styled Social Democrats.

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,Why Democracy means,Everybody but me.

"The state is nothing but an instrument of opression of one class by another - no less so in a democratic republic than in a monarchy."

"We congratulate the people of Yugoslavia on their commitment to democracy."

"There is no logic to supporting the King. He has done a travesty to democracy."

"We're very disappointed that Pakistan has taken another turn away from democracy rather than as we had hoped a step towards democracy,"

"expanding economic opportunity and democracy (and) respect for the rule of law."

"We consider free press to be an essential element of a healthy democracy."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."

"If I don't get along with Democrats, I'm sort of, like, out of business."