Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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 the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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 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 involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.