Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are…

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Ive always loved the power of stories to transport me to another world, to imagine extraordinary possibilities, to experience things I may not have…

— Kandyse McClure

Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with…

— Harry S. Truman

Democracy maintains that government is established for the benefit of the individual, and is charged with the responsibility of protecting the individual, and is…

— Harry S. Truman

I'm somebody who explores extraordinary possibilities, not ordinary ones.

— Graham Hancock

The nation did not begin to realize the extraordinary possibilities of the vast Western territory until its attention was thus suddenly and definitely concentrated…

— John Moody

If democracy is based on the people why force it [on Iraq]

— Loesje

Our country's democracy is based on free and fair elections, the wisdom of the voters and the peaceful transfer of power.

— Tom Suozzi

The Western concept of democracy is based on the idea that the loser of an election has the possibility next time round of being…

— Henry A. Kissinger

The United States presents a value system to the world that is based on democracy, based on economic freedom, based on individual rights for…

— Colin Powell

Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its…

— Paul Tsongas

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should…

— Herbert Croly

Not everything is so bad... Whichever way you look at it, we feel that we can face the future when the liberal, democracy-based world…

— Kersti Kaljulaid

Democracy is based upon empathy and the recognition that some decisions are solely for the community's benefit without regard to one's own narrow self-interest.

— John Hickenlooper