The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.
Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.