If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
If the U.S. entered the war [WWI] to make the world safe for democracy, she needed first to make democracy safe in America.
The test of a democracy is not the magnificence of buildings or the efficiency of transportation, but rather the care given to the welfare of all the people.
Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand.
The road to democracy is not a freeway. It is a toll road on which we pay by accepting and carrying out our civic responsibilities.
Man’s capacity for evil makes democracy necessary and man’s capacity for good makes democracy possible.
Free and fair elections are a necessary – but not sufficient – condition of democracy.
Democracy is a system of constructive contention.
. . . while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functionsperformed by private citizens.
We can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of few. But we can’t have both.
We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.