Quotes about Democracy

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

Democracy is a method of finding proximate solutions for insoluble problems.

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

The preservation of a democratic civilization requires the wisdom of the serpent and the harmlessness of the dove.

The consistent optimism of our liberal culture has prevented modern democratic societies both from gauging the perils of freedom accurately and from appreciating democracy fully as the only alternative to injustice and oppression. When this optimism is not qualified to accord with the real and complex facts of human nature and history, there is always a danger that sentimentality will give way to despair and that a too consistent optimism will alternate with a too consistent pessimism.

Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.

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.

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.

Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent.