Albert Einstein Quotes

The formation of parties, societies, political or professional associations, as well as religious societies, whether Islamic or pertaining to one of the recognized religious minorities, is permitted provided they do not violate the principles of independence, freedom, national unity, the criteria of Islam, or the basis of the Islamic republic.

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me, or the driver at my heels, with his whip in hand, commanding me to ge-wo-haw, just at his pleasure.

The people have a right to assemble together, to consult for their common good-to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances, by address, petition or remonstrance.

I never have attended a Democratic convention …. Now I’ll tell you why I don’t attend them. Because I’ll not be bound. If I attend a convention and I vote, I’m bound. I think I am bound.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.

I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.

The greatest single blessing enjoyed by the people of these United States is the right of conscience -- the right to think, and to say and write what one thinks. I admit of no limitation of that right.

Freedom of speech, freedom to criticize pillars of government, freedom to form parties and freedom of the press within the framework of the constitution are among the absolute rights of the public.

We [Russia] and America both have freedom of speech. The only difference is that Americans have freedom after they speak.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

With the right of free speech goes the right of free silence.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against privilege they are thrown overboard.

[Guarantees of freedom] will be found to consist in the highest protection of the individual and of society, chiefly against public power, because it is necessarily from this power that the greatest danger threatens the citizen, or that the most serious infringement of untrammeled action is to be feared.

There should be constitutional liberty of speech and freedom of thought, which is the elementary right of every citizen under any civilized form of Government

I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right, without the yoke of any party on me... Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them!

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

When I am talking about politics, it is not about reading a book, theories on policies, but awareness on what is our right as a citizen of a democratic country.

We live in a democracy. We don't have to tell the people how to vote.