Actually Quote by Robert A. Dahl

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of…

— Walt Whitman

The happiest thing that can be said about democracy... is that it is one of the few systems that has been willing to risk…

— Harry Allen Overstreet

Democracy is difficult and demanding. So is history. It can crack your voice; it can stir your soul; it can break your heart.

— Jill Lepore

Democracy used to be a good thing, but now it has gotten into the wrong hands.

— Jesse Helms

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is not something that happens, you know, just at election time, and it's not something that happens just with one event. It's an…

— Jim Hightower

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

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

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

— Plato

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

— Eugene McCarthy

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé