There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

If you distance yourself from reality and just cling to cliches about democracy find yourself a different job than analyzing politics

La quantité de critiques reçues concernant tout sujet est inversement proportionnelle à la valeur exacte du sujet

Insurgence and all forms of evil in a society doesn't describes her as a failure, but vividly shows a lack of love for one another.

The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.

The people who lead us are of us. We put them in office and we can take them out. America proves that the people can govern themselves.

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He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

The real triumph of the state occurs when its subjects refer to it as “we,” like football fans talking about the home team.

There was something melancholic about that symbol of their nation's promise of freedom, a bell with a chipped mouth and cleft body.

Just as war is too important to leave it to the generals, science and technology are too important to leave in the hands of the experts.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction.