A threat to deprive the governed of their jobs or means of livelihood, by a group which has the power to do so, would undermine a democracy.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
It is impossible to run a democracy if people with opposing ideas refuse to deal with one another.
Where the political forms of democracy function within a society in which economic controls are not subject to political control, there is always a standing threat to democracy.
This is the most democratic place I have “ever” been in. And the more I see of democracy the more I dislike it… Everything is happy-go-lucky, and one couldn’t “fret” about anything if one tried. One just doesn’t care. And they are all like that… In a way it’s a relief – a relief from […]
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
I swear to the Lord I still can’t see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.
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.
