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Democracy

«Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.»
«What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country»
«While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty»
«We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos»
«To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.»
«While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.»
«Western civilization, Christianity, decency are struggling for their very lives. In this worldwide civil war, race prejudice is our most dangerous enemy, for it is a disease at the very root of our democratic life.»
«We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis | About: Democracy | Keywords: concentrated
«We?re busy exporting Democracy abroad to Afghanistan and Iraq, which is fine, but what we really need to do is a better job at making our Democracy work right here at home.»
Author: Senator John Kerry (Senator) | About: Afghanistan, Democracy, Iraq | Keywords: exports
«Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it»
Author: Walter Winchell | About: Democracy | Keywords: wonders