Democratic Quotes

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Few things are as democratic as a snowstorm. — Bernard Williams
Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the… — Walter Lippmann
What is more natural in a democratic age than that we should begin to measure the stature of a work of art-especially of a painting-by… — Daniel J. Boorstin
If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention. — Gloria Steinem
In Massachusetts they [Democratic politicians] steal, in California they feud, and in New York they lie. — Robert Kennedy
To make ourselves invisible to creditors or to the envious, and even to our own worries, we can take advantage here on earth of a… — Jean Giraudoux
The Democratic Party is not the party of reform. — Richard Lamm
Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the compromising… — Gore Vidal
Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The taste for well-being is the prominent and indelible feature of democratic times. — Alexis de Tocqueville
Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The history of the labor movement needs to be taught in every school in this land. America is a living testimonial to what free men… — Hubert H. Humphrey
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions… — Aldous Huxley
Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The advertiser is the overrewarded court jester and court pander at the democratic court. — Joseph Wood Krutch
This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to see them dying. Here on the… — Garrison Keillor
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is… — Simon Bolivar
If one man can be allowed to determine for himself what is law, every man can. That means first chaos, then tyranny. Legal process is… — Felix Frankfurter
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the… — John Drinkwater
The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace… — Lee Iacocca
Although Christianity has never been the guarantee of a democratic state anywhere in the world, no democracy has ever thrived successfully for any period of… — Theodore White
If American politics does not look to you like a joke, a tragic dance; if you have enough blindness left in you, on any plea,… — John Jay Chapman

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