In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.