"Our democracy is but a name. We..." - Quote by Helen Keller

“One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.”

“If I, deaf, blind, find life rich and interesting, how much more can you gain by the use of your five senses!”

“I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.”

“Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.”

“I'd like to think that "President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people."”

“If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y”

“A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.”

“Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices.”

“Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator.”