If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~ Simeon Strunsky
The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves. ~ Bernard Baruch
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ~ Abraham Lincoln
I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong. ~Mohandas Gandhi
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. ~ Winston Churchill
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. ~ George Bernard Shaw
There cannot be daily democracy without daily citizenship. ~Ralph Nader
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. ~ Gunter Grass
We talk about problems, issues, policies, but we don't talk about what democracy means — what it bestows on us — the revolutionary idea that it isn't just about the means of governance but the means of dignifying people so they become fully free to claim their moral and political agency. ~ Bill Moyers
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