Democracy Quote by Arvo Pärt

“Democracy is like a great play. It lasts more than one act. You must be patient,”

— Michael Dobbs

“Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.”

— Bernard R. Crick

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.”

— Steven Levitsky

“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t Shove. It…

— E. B. White

“This is the Apocalypse, not a democracy,”

— Sean Platt

“America: An ongoing experiment in democracy controlled largely by insanely wealthy people. And that's just the way we like it, thank you very much.”

— James Napoli

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

— Bill Moyers

“DEMOCRACY OF TOUCH - instead of a democracy of pocket.”

— D. H. Lawrence

“A few even celebrate, because the Republic gives them one thousand Notes as a condolence gift. Money and one less mouth to feed? What…

— Marie Lu

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip…

— Jane Addams

“As we celebrate the 150th anniversary of this tragic event in the American past, democracy is no longer being threatened by secession, slavery, or…

— John Fea