Tom Hayden Quotes

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

… a near revolutionary change in the democratic process

A democratic crisis can only be settled by more democracy.

Democracy is a revolutionary process.

Democracy is like a street car. You get off when you reach your destination.

No nation deserves freedom or can long retain it which does not win it for itself. Revolutions must be made by the people and for the people.

Let the people decide whom to vote for, who has more authority. And only people, only our citizens, are able to place the final emphasis, voting for this or that person or political force, or rejecting it. That's democracy.

I do not want the voice of the people shut out.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

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

Freedom is when the people can speak, democracy is when the government listens.

Once you have lost control over your people, you are on the road toward a potentially democratic society.

All of us today are learning democracy. We are only now forming a political culture.

If there is any power in this country greater than the power of the people, we will destroy it.

Let The People Rule

Give all of the governed a voice in their government; that and that alone is self government.

All power lays in the people!

Democracy is messy.

Our real disease ... is democracy.

The people should choose whom they please to govern them.

The process of our democracy must not be imperiled by the denial of essential powers of free government.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.