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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

The nature of a democracy consists to an important degree in the right of the people to criticize problems and mistakes.

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.