We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.
Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.
Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.
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.