Threats to Democracy Quotes

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. It has no apparatus to deal with the boor, the liar, the lout, and the anti-democrat in general.

We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target.

. We cannot suffer a foreign government to allow plots to our polity to be hatched on its territory!

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.

The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.

Democracy has many enemies, and the terrorist is only one of them.

Americans are about to discover that their system is more vulnerable than they thought. There's a lot of complacency in American politics, there's a lot of complacency in advanced democracies generally.

The Republic will not be destroyed by terrorism.

The U.S. government is actually exceptionally vulnerable.

Drift is the demon of democracy.

All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals?