Jesse Jackson Quotes

A thriving middle class is a necessary precondition for a free representative government.

If America wants to make the world safe for democracy, then she had better make democracy safe in America.

No famine has ever taken place in the history of the world in a functioning democracy.

Being a very young democracy, we are going to have a fair amount of grumbling that will emerge from our economy…

The richest countries in the world are democracies. The most stable countries in the world are democracies. There are no tensions between the two.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.

Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization.

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world

A democratic crisis can only be settled by more democracy.

The most damning indictment of the United States in Central America is that we have allowed the sterile voices of Marxism-Leninism to claim falsely the mantle of economic justice and hope for ordinary people when it should be carried by the heirs of Thomas Jefferson.

Men may die, but the fabric of free institutions remain unshaken.

Public participation in the process of government is the essence of democracy.

Democracy is liberty plus economic security. We Americans want to pray, think as we please—and eat regular.

Democracy without a free press is inconceivable.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

Democratic capitalism, combined with industrial democracy, is unquestionably the best way of life for mankind.

Among the foremost benefits of free government is that education of the intelligence and of the sentiments which is carried down to the very lowest ranks of the people when they are called to take a part in acts which directly affect the great interests of their country.

It is citizen participation that nourishes the strength of a democracy.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

Capitalism and democracy are intertwined into our way of life so intricately that serious problems with the economy (again, particularly as they affect the typical family) represent a threat to almost everything we believe in.

The world must be made safe for democracy.

We can't just cut our way to prosperity. Even as we look for ways to reduce deficits over the long term, we must grow the economy in a way that strengthens the middle class and everyone willing to work hard to get into it.