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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

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

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.