A Quote by Thomas Jefferson

The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson
American - President
April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826

Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Mr. Speaker, democracy works best when the American electorate is engaged and informed.

Melissa Bean

A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

Thomas Jefferson

Reading builds the educated and informed electorate so vital to our democracy.

Brad Henry

A vital democracy requires an informed electorate, civil discourse, and bold thinking.

Jane O'Meara Sanders

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Jay Griffiths

If we don't have an informed electorate we don't have a democracy. So I don't care how people get the information, as long as they get it. I'm just doing it my particular way and I feel lucky I can do it the way I want to do it.

Jim Lehrer

The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.

Kathleen Hall Jamieson

I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.

Daniel Levitin

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

If you just believe in our democracy, and you want an informed electorate, public schools are in your interest, and I think our country is dependent on public schools, whether or not you personally have a kid in the public school system.

Charles Best

If you have an informed electorate, it makes great choices.

Jane Mayer

An informed electorate is foundational to the future of this Republic.

Madison Cawthorn

Appeal must be to an informed, civically militant electorate.

Felix Frankfurter

Representative democracy betrays the electorate when laws have no roots in the people but in oligarchies. Studies on the concept and modalities of direct democracy are therefore becoming more topical

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

Back then, before it became clear that democracy was best served by a drunken electorate, the bars in New York City were required to close on Election Day.

Lawrence Block

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