Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.