Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

We hold there is no worse enemy to a state than he who keeps the law in his own hands.

Rather than caving in to protests, let us know who is in charge by setting boundaries.

Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.

In a democracy we sometimes have to put up with things we don't life or approve of.

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.

When there is liberty, you expect a higher degree of freedom and not human rights abuse.

Free man needs loyalty to the self first of all, and this implies the right to be himself

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

...I do not want art for a few; any more than education for a few; or freedom for a few...

Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.