Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in
practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
-- Meg Greenfield
The
freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that
shakes the turrets of the land.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American
Author, Wit, Poet
I swear to
the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means,
everybody but me.
-- Langston Hughes
1902-1967, American Poet,
Short-story Writer, Playwright
It is not
enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be
to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy
is not property; it is an idea.
-- Hubert H. Humphrey
1911-1978, American
Democratic Politician, Vice President
