The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. Read Summary
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences. Read Summary
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament. Read Summary
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. Read Summary
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. Read Summary
Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government. Read Summary
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: 'Thou shalt not ration justice.' Read Summary
Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making. Read Summary
I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be. Read Summary
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. Read Summary
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins. Read Summary
Unions, by and large, are democratic organizations with freely chosen leaders and policies determined by the membership. They concern themselves with individual dignity not only in their aims but in their method. We have no better example of what is worthy of emulation abroad than the workings of a good union. Read Summary
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy. Read Summary
If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. Read Summary
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. Read Summary
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. Read Summary
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. Read Summary
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. Read Summary
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival. Read Summary
Brexit is the best thing to happen for Russia, for America, for Germany, and for democracy. Read Summary