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Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

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

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an ongoing building process. But it also ought to be a part of our culture, a part of our lives.

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

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

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

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.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

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