"Democracy is the best form of the..." - Quote by Winston Churchill

“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”

“If we look to our responsibility to the generations yet unborn who will come after us, how can we fail to recognize that peace and freedom are inextricably bound up one with another and that the threat to one is a threat to both”

“Courage is the ability to go from failure to failure with enthusiasm.”

“There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned.”

“Government is being founded on opinion, the opinion of the public, even when it is wrong, ought to be respected to a certain degree.”

“Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.”

“If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.”

“Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.”