Abraham Lincoln Democracy Quotes

#1. I thought I could make a sarcastic joke about it. But it's based on my own struggle with how much to give, how much it's really helping or not, and how foolish or not I feel. Giving sometimes backfires ...

Nicole Holofcener

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

Abraham Lincoln

#3. Be thou comforted,little dog;thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.

Martin Luther

#4. Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

Abraham Lincoln

#5. What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

Abraham Lincoln

#6. That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.

Joe Klein

#7. I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. It was never wise for a ruler to eschew the trappings of power, for power itself flows in no small measure from such trappings.

George R R Martin

#9. Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Abraham Lincoln

#10. If the people of Utah shall peacefully form a State Constitution tolerating polygamy, will the Democracy admit them into the Union?

Abraham Lincoln

#11. The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

Abraham Lincoln

#12. Ages are mere reminders of the hours logged on this earth and the precious time remaining.

Casper Smart

#13. No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

Henry Rollins