Thomas Jefferson Democracy Quotations

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

If the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?

Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.

The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

We are sensible of the duty and expediency of submitting our opinions to the will of the majority, and can wait with patience till they get right if they happen to be at any time wrong.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.