Quotes

It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty.

Francis Bacon 1561-1626

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide…whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Carrie Chapman Catt 1859-1947

No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill 1874-1965

The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

W.E.B. Du Bois 1868-1963

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke 1729-1797

I have fought against white domination. I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a free and democratic society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realised. But, my Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.

Nelson Mandela 1918-2013

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

William H. Hastie 1904-1976