Brad Henry Quotes

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

Without education, you can’t have democracy.

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

Most people associate reading with laying on the beach. They don't see that it's crucial for a democracy!

The fact that a man is to vote forces him to think.

The vitality of democracy depends on popular knowledge of complex questions.

Democracy depends on well educated and engaged citizens.

What we need more than anything else is an informed populace. I believe people want to be informed.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

A democracy depends on its people, the literate and the well read.

You cannot have a democracy without an informed people.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

Democracy is not just voting for your leaders; it's really premised upon ordinary citizens understanding the issues.

Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

An educated people can be easily governed.

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are conditions for development.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

Young people need to vote. They need to get out there. Every vote counts. Educate yourself too. Don't just vote. Know what you're voting for, and stand by that.

I always preach that you have to be active as a citizen no matter what, and some people just voting as an excuse not to do anything.