America Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go…

— Aleksandr Lebed

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

Democracy is extremely complex; it is extremely concrete. It's about constantly choosing, finding, developing practical options within the common good. Constantly searching for how…

— John Ralston Saul

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for…

— Jimmy Carter

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of…

— Shirin Ebadi

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

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

— Thomas Carlyle

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

When we generate utopian visions and hope to make them happen soon – when we elect Barack Obama and expect all our problems to…

— Parker J. Palmer