Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

The country has come a long way in race relations, but the pendulum swings so far back. Everyone wants to be so sensitive.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

Homophobia is real in this country.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

We don’t want to promote any system that treats the fact that an individual is LGBT as a personality disorder. And anything that perpetuates that perception is harmful – not only to that member of the community but the entire community.

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.

The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

For the record, our democracy is revered around the world. And free elections are the best way on Earth to choose our leaders. This is how we elected John F. Kennedy; Ronald Reagan; two George Bushes; Bill Clinton; and Barack Obama. It has worked for decades.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

I want a president with a record of public service, someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase fame and fortune for ourselves: we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

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

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody’s ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the ‚n‘ word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren’t pretty or they weren’t rich or they weren’t clever.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say – but I can say they are certainly no worse.

It’s actually very easy for democracy to disappear.

The U.S. and its allies will do anything they can to prevent authentic democracy in the Arab world.

I don’t even call them fans. I don’t like that. They’re literally just a part of my life; they’re a part of my family. I don’t think of them as on a lower level than me. I don’t think I’m anything but equal to all of them. So yeah, they’re basically all of my siblings.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

In a democracy, in a functioning democracy, what would be happening is that popular organizations, unions, political groupings, others would be developing their programs, putting them forth, insisting that their representatives implement those programs.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Only when Christ comes again will the little white children of Alabama walk hand in hand with little black children.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

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.

We believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We’ve got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words match the actual consequences of their deeds?

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

Our constitution is a ray of hope: H for harmony, O for Opportunity, P for people’s participation and E for equality.

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

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

I want a president with a record of public service: someone whose life’s work shows our children that we don’t chase form and fortune for ourselves; we fight to give everyone a chance to succeed.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Everybody is entertained to death.

Women’s liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It’s men who are discriminated against. They can’t bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

All men are equal before fish.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

It is right to give every man his due.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.