Sam Levenson Quotes

While 18th century Americans objected to taxation without representation, they also objected equally to taxation with representation.

Taxation without representation is tyranny.

In 1790, the nation which had fought a revolution against taxation without representation discovered that some of its citizens weren't much happier about taxation with representation.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented .... They were not willing to be governed by laws which they had no voice in making; but this is the way in which women are governed in this Republic.

Addressing ‘grievances’ is a founding principle of American Democracy.

I have always believed that genuine democracy is fairness.

Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?

it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

Tolerance is carved into the rostrum of the U.S. House of Representatives and intolerance should not be carved into the U.S. Constitution.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.

Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.

The true victory is the victory for democracy and pluralism.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

It does not matter what party you are a member of in this great Nation of ours. Accountability and competence are characteristics that Americans value throughout our great land.

The elections that have taken place in these countries are a reflection of the lure of Democracy, and the resilience of our men and women in uniform who helped bring freedom to many who never knew what the word truly meant.

A full and fair discussion is essential to democracy.

We have had a long wait for democracy.

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

The time has come for justice at the ballot box, and justice in the courts, and justice in the legislative halls, and justice in the governor's office.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

Democratic principles are the result of equality of condition.