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

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

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

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

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

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.

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