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.’
Democracy Quotes
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.
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
