Democracy Quote by Stacey Abrams

I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it,

— Jack Granatstein

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

— George Takei

I think there's a tide that tends to carry historians back to the past.

— Ron Chernow

“The most effective way to revive democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes,…

— Aaron Nordquist

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.

— David McCullough

If those people in power never made any mistakes, we'd be done for as a democracy. But people keep making mistakes. History is a…

— Zephyr Teachout

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

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling…

— Ibrahim Babangida

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

— Louis de Bernières

What would constitute useful history? That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them.

— Voltaire

It's said that history inevitably marches toward democracy, but it only leaves the possibility of democracy, and the constant threat that it would be…

— Zephyr Teachout

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

— Benigno Aquino III