The rights of democracy are not reserved for a select group within society, they are the rights of all the people.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Having two non-functional parties is not a democracy, it's a losing coin flip.
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildf...
It is extremely difficult to obtain a hearing from men living in democracies, unless it be to speak to them of themselves. They do not attend to the things said to them, because they are always fully engrossed with the things they are doing. For inde...
We have been taught, both inside the classroom and outside of it, that there exists an entity called the West, and that one can think of this West as a society and civilization independent of and in opposition to other societies and civilizations. Ma...
[The Internet] affects democracy... As more and more citizens express what they think, and defend it in writing, that will change the way people understand public issues. It is easy to be wrong and misguided in your head. It is harder when the produc...
For the developing world, the past half-century has been a time of recurring hope and frequent disappointment. Great waves of change have washed over the landscape, from the crumbling of colonial hegemonies in mid-century to the recent collapse of Co...
democracy is about the conditions that make it possible for ordinary people to better their lives by becoming political beings and by making power responsive to their hopes and needs. What is at stake in democratic politics is whether ordinary men an...
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.
Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
I don't understand why it has to be either - or - either socialism or democracy. Why can't we combine things to get the best of each system?
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
