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 […]
Democracy Quotes
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.
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.
