Susan B. Anthony Quotes

The whole idea of a public education was to train young people about how our system of government works, so they could be good citizens and be part of it. We're not doing that today.

A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be on a small one.

I know people don't like America very much, but the one thing it's very good on is local government.

The government's objective, broadly expressed, is that all persons, whatever their level of ability, whether they live in town or country, have a right as citizens to a free education of the kind for which they are best fitted and to the fullest extent of their powers.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

… the people as the fourth branch of government

Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

I know, it's amazing to people that we have a political system, but we do.

There are two subjects, indeed, which I shall claim a right to further as long as I breathe: the public education, and the sub-division of counties into wards. I consider the continuance of republican government as absolutely hanging on these two hooks.

There are elements of democracy in votes here and there in America. But in the actual structure of the government, we're a representative republic.

As long as the government's actions are secret, it cannot be held accountable. A government for the people and by the people should be transparent to the people.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

[the framers of the Constitution] intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from a despotism.

Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.

If the people fail to vote, a government will be developed which is not their government... The whole system of American Government rests on the ballot box. Unless citizens perform their duties there, such a system of government is doomed to failure.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

In America, we will have a government of, by and for the people.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

The will of the people shall be the law of the land

Democracy entails a correlation between the public interest as expressed by a majority of the population and the governmental policies that affect them. The term encompasses various manifestations, including direct, participatory and representative democracy, but Governments must be responsive to people and not to special interests such as the military-industrial complex, financial bankers and transnational corporations. Democracy is inclusive and does not privilege an anthropological aristocracy.

Thank God for the founding fathers, who set up three separate branches of government. And the media acting as the Fourth Estate.