Democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. — Ronald Reagan
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. — James Madison Jr
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. — Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Democracy is not being, it is becoming. It is easily lost, but never finally won. — William H. Hastie
America’s support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world. — William J. Bennett
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. — Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. — Thomas Mann
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may — Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is this — to hold that all who wander down the pike in cart or car, on foot or bike — Alice Duer Miller
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. — George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. — E. B. White
As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. — H. L. Mencken
The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public — Avram Noam Chomsky
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself — Anna Garlin Spencer
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have. — E. B. White
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as arcadia, santca claus, and heaven. — H. L. Mencken
Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it’s not something — Jim Hightower