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

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

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 may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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.