Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that….

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule..

Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come….

We have throughout our history been tested when it comes to the institutions of our democracy. And thank God our forefathers were smart enough to est….

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..

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals.

The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which ….

That's what's great about Howard Zinn. Here's a guy who says, "Look, democracy doesn't come from above - it comes from below." The only way change wi….

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.

The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imb….

The only way to achieve a practical, livable peace in a world of competing nations is to take the profit out of war..

Although our interests as citizens vary, each one is an artery to the heart that pumps life through the body politic, and each is important to the he….

The U.S. corporate media, otherwise known as the "free press," is that hollow pillar on which contemporary American democracy rests..

In a well-functioning democracy, the state constitution is considered more important than God's holy book, whichever holy book that may be, and God m….

Voting is the first duty of democracy..

We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy..

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education..

Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest..

Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded..

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!.

The universe has no prince or king that it [Rome] would consider equal to its humblest citizen..