Norman Braman Quotes

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

We deserve to elect our own government.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

I feel that the majority of people should decide for themselves what kind of government they want.

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

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

We need to restore our democracy to a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.

If an election doesn't go your way, you don't get to call a do-over. Part of respecting our democracy is respecting the will of the voters.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

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.

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.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

I think the voters can make up their own minds.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.

How few of the human race have ever enjoyed an opportunity of making an election of government for themselves and their children.

In a democracy we assume that people can define their own interest and vote that way.

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper — no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly palliate the overwhelming importance of that point.

I cast my vote against Donald Trump. I did it without joy or enthusiasm. I did it out of civic duty and love for our country.