The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Democracy Quotes
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.
Democracy is like a raft. It won’t sink, but you’ll always have your feet wet.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
