"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." - Winston Churchill

"The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think. " - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Intellectually, I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally, I know she is better than every other country. " - Sinclair Lewis

"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." -George Bernard Shaw

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously." - Hubert H. Humphrey

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. " -Harry Emmerson Fosdick

"In our country, we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either." - Mark Twain

"In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." - Amy Tan

"America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well pleased." - P. J. O'Rourke

"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it." - Thomas Jefferson

"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy." - H. L. Mencken

"It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living ." - Bertrand Russell

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy." - John Updike

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"I must tell you that the supply of words on the world market is plentiful, but the demand is falling." -Lech Walesa

"Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." - Gertrude Stein

"Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it." - Pericles

"The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions." - Adlai E. Stevenson

"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Whatever it is, I'm against it." - Groucho Marx