Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as
good as I am.'

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as
good as I am.'

Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism
are political systems. There read more

Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism
are political systems. There are democratic communists
and totalitarian capitalists.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the
people are right more than half of the read more

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the
people are right more than half of the time.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most
aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most
aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

Caesarism is democracy without liberty.
[Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]

Caesarism is democracy without liberty.
[Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of read more

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.