"Democracy is not a spectator sport." — Marian Wright Edelman
"The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." — Thomas Jefferson
"Democracy dies in darkness." — The Washington Post
"A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living." — John Dewey
"Democracy is fragile and must be protected. It requires constant care and effort from all of us." — Barack Obama
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." — John Adams
"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." — Benjamin Franklin
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." — Alexis de Tocqueville
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." — Abraham Lincoln
"Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments." — Alexander Hamilton
"An elective despotism was not the government we fought for." — Thomas Jefferson
"The alternate domination of one faction over another... is itself a frightful despotism." — George Washington
"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention... as short in their lives as violent in their deaths." — James Madison
"Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects." — Aristotle

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