Change Quote by Noah Feldman

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There are some historians who say that democratic republics dont last more than 200 years. Well, weve got to show that you can last…

— Maurice Hinchey

Creating deep and meaningful change in this country takes time - years and sometimes decades.

— Chris Murphy

We believe the way social change occurs in the United States, over the last 200 years, is the democratic process.

— Tom Steyer

As I understand I took most so-called democratic states about 200 years on average to build their democracies. That is why, when we go…

— Aleksandr Lebed

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what…

— Anonymous

The machinery of the democratic process is really no different today from what it was 150 years ago.

— Steven Spielberg

It took us in this country 11 years to get from the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution.

— Mitch McConnell

“As heirs to a legacy more than two centuries old, it is understandable why present-day Americans would take their own democracy for granted. A…

— Jon Stewart

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“It does not require much historical knowledge (though it may require a certain historical perspective) to see that many, if not all, of the…

— John Lukacs