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Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We cannot allow ourselves to give in to fear or shy away from interacting with the public.

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

Freedom to vote is valuable primarily as a means to safeguard other freedoms.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.