Finn Jones Quotes

I believe, in America, we're a nation of people that are self-governors. This idea that only a chosen few elites have the ability to make decisions is foreign to me.

The American citizen must be made aware that today a relatively small group of people is proclaiming its purposes to be the will of the People. That elitist approach to government must be repudiated.

Democracy has two extremes to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes it by conquest.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

The difference between democracy and autocracy is whether people are organized from the bottom up or the top down

It is conflict combined with consent, not consent alone, which preserves democracy from eroding into oligarchy.

The value of democracy lies in the fact that good or bad government has its roots in the localities where people know each other and where they account for their actions to their neighbors.

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

My government will respect the will of the people.

We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

If democracy brings an undemocratic group to power, is that a victory for democracy?

In a democratic set-up, people who are being governed should also be a part of the governing system. They should be drafted into the governance.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

It depends on the consent of the people to decide whether kings or counsuls or other magistrates are to be established in authority over them, and if there is a legitimate cause, the people can change a kingdom into an aristocracy or an aristocracy into a democracy, and vice versa.

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.