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And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr.

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

— Robert A. Dahl

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

— Ron Paul

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

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

— Plato

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

— Caleb Cushing

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

— Peggy Noonan

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

— Robert W. Welch, Jr.

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

— H. L. Mencken

✗Opposing Perspectives

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

— Paul Tsongas