“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
—John Adams

“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ” —Robert M. Hutchins

“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
—John F. Kennedy