Robert M. La Follette Quotes

Democracy is not what we hate the most and what we fear the most. We need to stand up.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

Democratic rights develop when the ruled demand them and have the means to prevail.

Rights are won only by those who make their voices heard.

Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.

You do not keep American democracy in suspense. Because, look, too many people have marched and protested and fought and died for this democracy.

A messy participatory process is representative democracy at its best.

The people must know that from this day on, we want their opinions.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep. Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded ...

Democracy cannot be created out of thin air

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process.

Peaceful protest is a hallmark of our democracy. It has been in impetus for social change throughout our history.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

This is the democratic process at work, What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people embracing American-style democracy.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

The answer to subversion of democracy is more democracy, more freedom, more justice.

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights, is not "given", it is earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice.

In countries where democracy is either non-existent or in development, on the other hand, citizens crave those freedoms. Maybe that is one lesson Western citizens can learn from those countries: treasure what you have. Use your rights and freedoms to effect the change you want.

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

To protest against injustice is the foundation of all our American democracy.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.