I swear to the Lord I still can’t see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.
Democracy Quotes
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
It is the absolutist, whether of left or right, that democracy has to fear. This is the man who thinks that he alone possesses wisdom, patriotism and virtue, who recognizes no obligation to accept community decisions with which he disagrees, who regards any means as justified by the end, who views the political process as […]
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
Democracy is the art of thinking independently together.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
