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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

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.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.

For starters, this country embodies something utterly unique: History's first democratic empire. Beginning in the post war era, we have used free trade and democracy to create a series of interlocking relationships that end war.

A global democracy works only when countries trust one another.

The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.

But if we had to trade with a Europe dominated by the present German trade policies, we might have to change our methods to some totalitarian form. This is a prospect that any lover of democracy must view with consternation.

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together.

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

When a government goes to war, particularly a democracy, it is the most solemn and awesome responsibility of our leaders - to decide to send our kids to go off and kill and die for us.

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.