Herbert H. Lehman Quotes

We do not owe allegiance to any candidate because they share our party or our color, but because they share our principles and our conscience.

I've always tried to vote my conscience.

I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation.

A man may be voted a bore or shunned as a pest, and yet he must be accorded the rights to which he is entitled by virtue of being a representative of the people.

I cast my vote for Independence

As we have the right of desiring amendments, why not exercise it.

Freedom can be preserved only if it is treated as a supreme principle which must not be sacrificed for particular advantages.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Was the rise of democracy the main driving force behind the development of contemporary liberal Western societies, or were long gestating developments in Western societies that fixed concepts of liberties and individual rights instead the drivers of democracy?

Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.

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

The privilege of a free society is that every man, woman, and child has the opportunity - and the obligation as a free people - to determine the trajectory of their country, of a political race.

I do. I vote. People died for our right to vote, you know, and I can't let that go.

I can't control what other people do or say. I can only control the one vote I've been bestowed upon by the people in the Tennessee Valley.

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

Forget the conspiracy theories! God gave us the right to vote, and He gave the United States, and all of its citizens, freedom through democracy.

Liberty is the most precious gift we offer our citizens.

It's very important to vote. People died for this right.

I never miss a vote; I think that's the power of the people. A lot of people fought and died for us to have votes, for women to have votes in particular - your vote is your one weapon.

At its most basic the democratic contract is a simple one: the right to vote comes with a responsibility to society, through tax payments and citizenship.

I am a freeman, an American, a United States Senator, and a Democrat, in that order.

I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Everybody now seems to be talking about democracy. I don't understand this. As I think of it, democracy isn't like a Sunday suit to be brought out and worn only for parades. It's the kind of a life a decent man leads, it's something to live for and to die for.