““Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice.” — Bertrand Russell …

“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi …

“The way people in democracies thing of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.” Lewis Mumford …

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.” — Winston Churchill …

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” — Robert Hutchins
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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” — Woodrow Wilson …

“Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another–too often ending in the loss of both.” — Tryon Edwards …

“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing.” – Walter H Judd …

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” — Albert Camus …

“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” — Kahlil Gibran …