Benjamin Franklin Democracy Quotes

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

- Benjamin Franklin

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.

- Benjamin Franklin

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.

- Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment.

- Benjamin Franklin

Tell me and I forget, Teach me and I remember, Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

- Benjamin Franklin

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.

- Benjamin Franklin

Occasionally the tree of Liberty must be watered with the blood of Patriots and Tyrants.

- Thomas Jefferson

The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from government.

- Thomas Paine

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

- William Faulkner

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

- Edward Abbey

Freedom lies in being bold.

- Robert Frost

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

- Benjamin Franklin

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is government of, by and for the people

- Abraham Lincoln

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

- Abraham Lincoln

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

- Abraham Lincoln