“The people’s right to obtain information does not, of course, depend on any assured ability to understand its significance or use it wisely. Facts belong to the people simply because they relate to interests that are theirs, government that is theirs, and votes…

“It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of money-raising or by sheer assumption, have the power to do as they think best without consulting the wisdom of mankind.” W….

“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.” Will Rogers, (1879-1935) American humorist.
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“Without general elections, without unrestrained freedom of press and assembly, without a free struggle of opinion, life dies out in every public institution… in which only the bureaucracy remains as the active element.” Rosa Luxemburg, (1880-1919). Source: in The Russian Revolution
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“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!” Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790) US Founding Father.
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“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to “create” rights. Rather they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government
from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” Justice William J. Brennan, (1906-1997) U. S. Supreme Court…

“Complaints are every where heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable; that the public good is disregarded in the…

“At the foundation of our civil liberties lies the principle that denies to government officials an exceptional position before the law and which subjects them to the same rules of conduct that are commands to the citizen.” Justice Louis D. Brandeis, (1856-1941) US Supreme…

“The only shape in which equality is really connected with justice is this — justice presupposes general rules. If these general rules are to be maintained at all, it is obvious that they must be applied equally to every case which satisfies their terms.” James Fitzjames…

“The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.” Thomas Bailey Aldrich, (1836-1907). Source: Ponkapog Papers, 1903
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“Never trust governments absolutely and always do what you can to prevent them from doing too much harm.” John Arthur Passmore, (1914-2004) Australian philosopher.
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“A government resting on the minority is an aristocracy, not a republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press and a disarmed populace.” James Madison, (1751-1836), Father of the…