Agreement Quote by James Bryant Conant

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

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

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

— Reid Hoffman

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Democracy is a difficult art of government, demanding of its citizens high ratios of courage and literacy, and at the moment we lack both…

— Lewis H. Lapham

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

— Condoleezza Rice

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and…

— Ilka Chase

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

Democracy is rarely easy, nor swift.

— Sharan Burrow