Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them.
Democracy Quotes
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 […]
If our democracy is to flourish it must have criticism, if our government is to function it must have dissent. Only totalitarian governments insist upon conformity and they – as we know – do so at their peril… Americans have a stake in nonconformity, for they know that the American genius is nonconformist. It is […]
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement, surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.
Against Democrats the only remedy is soldiers.
