The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
Democracy Quotes
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 […]
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
The motive power of democracy is love.
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
The social justice for which we are striving is an incident of our democracy, not the main end.
