We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.
Our democracy is not something to be taken for granted. You have to fight for it. You have to commit yourself to working for it - for the long haul.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.
Democracy is a destiny of humanity which cannot be averted. It can be delayed but not defeated.
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.