It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy is a genus, not a species. Getting a democracy is rather like getting a ‘mammal’ for a gift. Kittens are nice. Wolverines will lunch on your eyeballs. You don’t drop a wolverine in your friend’s lap, and then walk away feeling you’ve done him a favor, since ‘the best pets are mammals.’
I am an enthusiast for democracy. And I take that position, not because I believe majority opinion is inevitably right or true – indeed no majority can take away God-given human rights – but because I believe it most effectively safeguards the value of the individual, and, more than any other system, restrains the abuse […]
The case for democracy is not esthetic.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
The world must be made safe for democracy.
If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference. While democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State ‘What does it matter to me?’ the State may be given up for lost.
