Democracy?

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

“In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.” — G. Norman Collie

“Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.” — James Russell Lowell

“You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”— Harry Emerson Forsdick

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.” — Jawaharlal Nehru

“Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It’s the right to make the wrong choice.” — John Patrick

“In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.” — Norman Cousins

“Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.” —Reinhold Niebuhr

“A free government is a complicated piece of machinery, the nice and exact adjustment of whose springs, wheels, and weights, is not yet well comprehended by the artists of the age, and still less by the people. John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, May 19, 1821

“It is much easier to pull down a government, in such a conjuncture of affairs as we have seen, than to build up, at such a season as the present.”— John Adams letter to James Warren, 1789.

Thanks David for these observations.

To a simply man like me Democracy is an idea without money. Mandla M