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Quotations by Subject: Democracy (24 quotes)

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The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything rises out of it and is absorbed back into it.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Notes on Democracy, 1926
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In a political sense, there is one problem that currently underlies all of the others. That problem is making Government sufficiently responsive to the people. If we dont make government responsive to the people, we dont make it believable. And we must make government believable if we are to have a functioning democracy.: Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Address at Jacksonville University, December 16, 1971
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There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.: Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859), Democracy in America, 1835
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Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep them in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.: Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Letter to Home Secretary Herbert Morrison
Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail.: John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963)
The constant free flow of communication amount us-enabling the free interchange of ideas-forms the very bloodstream of our nation. It keeps the mind and body of our democracy eternally vital, eternally young.: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.: Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Attlee
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.: G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
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