The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

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

A President and his wise men can only propose; but Congress disposes. It is when President and Congress agree that American history marches forward.

We are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few.

Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the political soul.

We can be so democratic that nothing gets done.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.

American democracy is the inalienable right to sit on your front porch, in your pyjamas, drinking a can of beer and shouting out 'Where else is this possible?' Which doesn't seem to me to be freedom, really.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished with the blood of martyrs and with the blood of tyrants.

All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.

My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

There can be no perfect democracy curtailed by color, race, or poverty. But with all we accomplish all, even peace.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.

Our military offensive is indispensable, since force must be met by force. But our social offensive is the extra weapon which the enemy cannot produce. Here the enemy meets democracy's strongest element-the ability to realize and satisfy the needs of its people without taking from them their freedom and dignity as human beings.