Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must be to penalize the free play of ideas.
I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world.
At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.
Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't had a real choice for a long, long time now. Wealth rules. Corporations rule. The US is a plutocracy - government by wealthy people. Certain people control multinational corporations. You couldn't get elected in the US without lots of money.
The survival of democracy depends on the renunciation of violence and the development of nonviolent means to combat evil and advance the good.
But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
Envy is the basis of democracy.
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.
Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
The United States is not for democracy in Iraq, it's for setting up a puppet government.
I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all.
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