Democracy | Some revealing quotes

"Politicians are not born; they are excreted." Cicero

"Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact." Lyndon Johnson

"I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy." A. J. Liebling

"The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees." Étienne de La Boétie

"If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free" Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The public is not cognizant of the real value of education, and does not realize that education as a social force is not receiving the kind of attention it has the right to expect in a democracy." Edward Bernays