Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy Quotes
Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent: it is a self-evident error in mere history. Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent: for it means appealing to the self-confident people. Democracy means appealing to the diffident people. Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the […]
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
For each man to have one whole woman to cook for and wait upon him is a poor education for democracy. The boy with a servile mother, the man with a servile wife, cannot reach the sense of equal rights we need to-day. Too constant consideration of the master’s tastes makes the master selfish… We […]
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy. Wealth has its way. The concentration of wealth and the division between rich and poor in the U.S. are unequaled anywhere. And think of […]
So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their […]
