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

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

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

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

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

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.