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

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.

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

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

Democracy is measured not by its leaders doing extraordinary things, but by its citizens doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

We can be so democratic that nothing gets done.

No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.