America's most dangerous and threatening black man is the one who has been kept sealed up by the Northerner in the black ghettos - the Northern white power structure's system to keep talking democracy while keeping the black man out of sight somewhere, around the corner.
Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
Lokmanya Tilak said "Swaraj is my birthright" but now the people of India must say, "Surajya is my birthright".
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all works, has already burst well upon the world—a sun, mounting, most illuminating, most glorious—surely never again to set. But against it, deeply entrench'd, holding possession, yet remains, (not only through the churches and schools, but by imaginative literature, and unregenerate poetry,) the fossil theology of the mythic-materialistic, superstitious, untaught and credulous, fable-loving, primitive ages of humanity.
The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.
Anybody who asks for democracy to be introduced should respect the results of democracy.
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.
Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens.
America has never been a pure democracy and majoritarianism has always been as much feared as monarchism.
A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it
Tocqueville talked about "ceaseless agitation," citizens constantly use their institutions, constantly challenging them, constantly insisting upon their rights. It's also individuals taking responsibility for other individuals, recognition that no democracy works if they're weaklings.
Barack Obama's devastating. His policies and his presidency are devastating. But I have this confidence that he's not gonna succeed in total transforming this country into a Western European socialist democracy where the vast majority of the population just lays down and accepts it.
By giving the government unlimited powers, the most arbitrary rule can be made legal; and in this way a democracy may set up the most complete despotism imaginable.
To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its hoped for results. This is not only intellectually invalid, it is, in practical terms, blinding oneself in advance to some of the unwanted consequences of the process.
In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.
Therefore, until the day I die, I am going to do what I can, regardless of the cost to me, to try to stop this awful corruption that is destroying our beloved democracy.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.