Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy, Of value is thy freight, ’tis not the Present only, The Past is also stored in thee, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone, Earth’s resume entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars, With thee Time […]
Democracy Quotes
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.
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.’
A conquest made by a democracy is always odious to the subject states. It becomes thereby monarchical by a fiction, but it is always more oppressive than a monarchy, as the experience of all times and ages shows.
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy… They are: equality of opportunity for youth and for others, jobs for those who can work, security for those who need it, the ending of special privilege for the few, the preservation of civil liberties for all, the enjoyment of the fruits […]
Only a base, vile, insignificant country can be democratic. A strong and heroic people tends to aristocracy.
Our constitution… favors the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy… Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike any other nation (we regard) him […]
