Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
A government of, for and by the people, requires much from the people.
The primary social contract between the people of the United States and their government - quaint though it might seem to even mention it at this point - is that ours is to be a government 'of the people, by the people, for the people.'
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country.
People live with the illusion that we have a democratic system, but it's only the outward form of one. In reality we live in a plutocracy, a government of the rich.
Ultimately, there is no entity called 'government'; there are only people forming themselves into groups called 'governments' and acting in a 'governmental' manner.