“The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself…The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.” – Jeff Melvoin

“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.” – Aristotle

“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.” – Laurence Peter

“I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.” – Woodrow Wilson

“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.” – Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Democracy alone, of all forms of government, enlists the full force of men’s enlightened will.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchhill

“A democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness sake, I will call it the idea of freedom.” – Theodore Parker

“Democracy works when people claim it as their own.” – Bill Moyers