Democracy Quote by Gordon S. Wood

“Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don’t. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.”

— David R. Johnson

“The United States of America, as defined in The Constitution thereof, is not a democracy, nor was it ever envisioned as such or intended…

— Joseph Befumo

“Disenchanted with the direction of modern America, they launched an ambitious, privately financed war of ideas to radically change the country. They didn’t want…

— Jane Mayer

“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..”

— Louis de Bernières

“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict…

— Noel B. Reynolds

“Our founding fathers placed so much emphasis on nurturing a well-educated populace because they knew that our system of democracy could not long survive…

— Ben Carson

“For the primary goal of the American Revolution which transferred American life and introduced a new era in human history, was not the overthrow…

— Bernard Bailyn

The 'corporatization of America' during the past century [has been] an attack on democracy.

— Noam Chomsky

“The most baffling mystery about American democracy is why putting such a brilliant idea into practice seems to attract all the wrong people.”

— David Gustafson

“Democracy, as a form of government, is utterly repugnant to—is the very antithesis of—the traditional American system: that of a Republic, as expressed in…

— Joseph Befumo

“Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.”

— Bill Moyers

“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo