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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democracy is a process.

Democracy is not simply a question of structures. It is a state of mind. It is an activity. And part of that activity is honesty.