Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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.
When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.