William Barr Quotes

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

In parliamentary and presidential democracies, the chief executive has been elevated from first among equals to the status of a monarch.

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

No President should seek a third term, that is if he believes in the continuation of democracy in this country.

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is in fact indispensable.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

I would like to state that my personal opinions are that the people of every country should decide by themselves what kind of government they want.

Being 'at the mercy of legislative majorities' is merely another way of describing the basic American plan: representative democracy.

All the forms of civil polity have been tried by mankind, except one, and that seems to have been reserved in Providence to be realized in America.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence.

The president of the United States is not a king. You know? Barack Obama was elected by the American people.

We've got in the habit of not really understanding how freedom was in the 19th century, the idea of government of the people in the 19th century. America commits itself to that in theory.

I have sworn to the nation to govern it under a constitutional system. But if, through the vices of its organization or the passions of its agents, it wants to convert itself into an instrument of anarchy, the nation itself in use of its sovereign rights will give a new representation, and I will be the first to invoke it.

The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of the consent of the people.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

Our Constitution professedly rests upon the good sense and attachment of the people. This basis, weak as it may appear, has not yet been found to fail.

Whatever faults modern democracies may have committed ..., the faults chargeable on monarchs and oligarchies have been less pardonable and more harmful to the peace and progress of mankind.

America is essentially and radically a democracy, not in name merely but in deed.

[Theodore] Roosevelt is the most perfectly equipped and the most effective politician thus far seen in the Presidency.

If you ever doubt that the people are the boss in a democracy, run for office. Even the President is a hired hand.