Aspiration Quote by Franklin D. Roosevelt

If there is one conclusion to which human experience unmistakably points it is that democratic ends demand democratic methods for their realization.

— John Dewey

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it…

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement…

— Herbert Croly

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

— Steven Spielberg

I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the…

— Walt Whitman

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

— Jill Lepore

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not…

— Vladimir Putin

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished…

— Wei Jingsheng

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of…

— Victor Davis Hanson

If history's any judge, you might have democratic leanings in a revolution but that doesn't necessarily mean that the revolution is going to end…

— Ilan Berman