Chapters Quote by George Takei

Where I think historians can help preserve and actually restore democracy is to remind us of how we got it.

— Stacey Abrams

But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.

— Daisaku Ikeda

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

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

Basically, we are witnessing the twilight of democracy.

— Tariq Ali

Democracy is not always chapter and verse, written out in advance.

— Jane O'Meara Sanders

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

— Agnes Repplier

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

We are sitting on a cornucopia of knowing that we had no way to access as a democracy. We couldn't get the democratization of…

— Jean Houston

Menaced by collectivist trends, we must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic. Democracy is…

— Herbert Hoover

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things…

— Robert A. Dahl

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We…

— Chinua Achebe