For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.
Newspapers write ringing editorials declaring that this is and always was a democracy.
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they... →
In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the... →
Orson Welles
One of the main reasons I came back to Mexico is because I've found freedom and democracy here, something I never found in the United States.
Willie Wells
The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
Paul Wellstone
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.