The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
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When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.
Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo doctors as well.
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 the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.