Certain Quote by George Will

A constitutional state is like daily bread, like water to drink and air to breath, and the best thing about democracy is that it…

— Gustav Radbruch

And the principle which distinguishes democracy from all other forms of government is that in a democracy the opposition not only is tolerated as…

— Walter Lippmann

A democratic constitution, not supported by democratic institutions in detail, but confined to the central government, not only is not political freedom, but often…

— John Stuart Mill

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them…

— William Howard Taft

In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

— Walter Lippmann

Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

— Clinton Rossiter

Of course, the aim of a constitutional democracy is to safeguard the rights of the minority and avoid the tyranny of the majority. (p. 102)

— Cornel West

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

— Phillip E. Johnson

The merit of our Constitution was, not that it promotes democracy, but checks it.

— Horatio Seymour

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely…

— Herbert Croly