America freedom Quote by John Marshall

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

— Rick Santelli

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

— Plato

We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only…

— John Dewey

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter,to a small…

— James Madison

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

— Jamie Dimon

Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.

— Richard Garriott

“democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion”

— Rohinton Mistry

Fear and monarchy pair nicely. But democracy means you have to work with people you may not like but you must still believe are…

— Martha Nussbaum

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is…

— Saul Alinsky

Democracy is messy, clearly, but it has one key factor, which is an orderly transfer of power.

— Toomas Hendrik Ilves