“But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right…”

2016, Remarks to the People of Cuba (March 2016)
Context: I believe that every person should be equal under the law. Every child deserves the dignity that comes with education, and health care and food on the table and a roof over their heads. I believe citizens should be free to speak their mind without fear to organize, and to criticize their government, and to protest peacefully, and that the rule of law should not include arbitrary detentions of people who exercise those rights. I believe that every person should have the freedom to practice their faith peacefully and publicly. And, yes, I believe voters should be able to choose their governments in free and democratic elections. Not everybody agrees with me on this. Not everybody agrees with the American people on this. But I believe those human rights are universal. I believe they are the rights of the American people, the Cuban people, and people around the world.

An ironic statement which Singer made in many interviews over many years; here quoted in &quot;Isaac Singer’s Promised City&quot; http://www.city-journal.org/html/7_3_urbanities-isaac.html City Journal (Summer 1997) <br class="br">Variants or variant translations:<br>We must believe in free will — we have no other choice.<br>You must believe in free will; there is no choice.<br>We have to believe in free will. We’ve got no choice. <br class="br">This makes more sense if you consider the statement &quot;we must believe in free will; we have no [other logical] choice&quot;

&quot;Interview: President Kim Dae Jung&quot; in TIME Asia http://www.cnn.com/ASIANOW/time/magazine/99/0913/interview.html (13 September 1999)

Noam Chomsky in interview by John Pilger on BBC&#x27;s The Late Show, November 25, 1992 http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/14177.htm. <br class="br">Quotes 1990s, 1990-1994

1900s, Letter to Winfield T. Durbin (1903)

Pearls of Wisdom

1997 Senate confirmation hearing, reported in Deborah Tedford, &quot; &quot;Senate Will Have To Confirm Court Choice http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104532843&amp;ft=1&amp;f=3&quot;, NPR (26 May 2009).