If their democracy shall survive their own self-amputation, the lightness of their governmental burdens will stimulate the flow of mercy through their social institutions and direct their thoughts toward pity for the useless sacrifice.
Aristocracy or Royalty, even, with Democracy in a tunnel, makes us ALL of one size!
May the men of affairs in this democracy uphold the standard of international conciliation.
It is my hope that the great American democracy may be instrumental in developing these hidden resources and that a bond of perfect amity and unity may be established between the American republic and the government of Persia.
Consider what a vast difference exists between modern democracy and the old forms of despotism.
There is no doubt that this wonderful democracy will be able to realize it, and the banner of international agreement will be unfurled here to spread onward and outward among all the nations of the world.
I desire this station for you, and I pray God that the people of America may achieve this great end in order that the virtue of this democracy may be ensured and their names be glorified eternally.
This American democracy manifests capacity, showing forth readiness to become the standard-bearer of the Most Great Peace.
Question: Is it not a fact that universal peace cannot be accomplished until there is political democracyin all the countries of the world?
May it be the first to upraise the standard of the Most Great Peace, and through this nation of democracy may these philanthropic intentions and institutions be spread broadcast throughout the world.
Let this American democracy become glorious in spiritual degrees even as it has aspired to material degrees, and render this just government victorious.
May this American democracy be the first nation to establish the foundation of international agreement.
Democracy is almost equally indifferent to history, and the dogmas of democracy make history unimportant.
Tyrants were bosses, produced by democracy in towns, but hated by democrats.
There is a mysticism of democracy and a transcendentalism of political philosophy in the masses to-day, which can be operated on by the old methods of suggestion.
When the earth is underpopulated and there is an economic demand for men, democracy is inevitable.
There is a pathos of democracy in the United States.
There is no reason to wonder at this action of a democracy, for a democracy is sure to resent any suggestion that it is limited in its functions, as compared with other political forms.
Public schools in a democracy may work in the same way.
The abuses of democracy in the cities took away all the joy of success.
Democracy and pair marriage are now produced by the conditions.
Russia ought to be a democracy by virtue of its sparse population and wide area of unoccupied land in Siberia.
As a consequence there was a parallel movement in the democracy across the sea.
And behind all, Lowell was prevailingly American, with the combined trust in democracy and fear for it that belonged to his group in his generation.
He saw no gleam of essential poetry in democracy or the crowded town, yet in his vague craving for something better than Georgian iterations he showed that the revival of individualism was at work in him.
A planet with a dictatorship doesn’t want subversives from some democracy trying to undermine their institutions—and vice versa.
You said in spite of appearances they don’t have democracy on Avalon.
If I say, it seems to me democracy is a good thing, you give me an argument about the superiority of rule by an elite.
Kind of an Athenian Democracy on top, a hierarchy, but nineteen people out of twenty were slaves, and I mean real slaves, like animals.
Barres, the celebrated French Socialist, said: "Let the Pope go on, and democracy will no longer see an enemy in the priest.
He tells 'em that Jason is probably a more efficient man than Democracywill be able to evolve in a coon's age, that we ought to take him over, instead of letting the capitalists have him.
We see only what may be called the first stage of it; for democracy is still in a far country eating the husks of individualism, materialism.
With the sole exception of Dean Inge, no front bench Churchman has displayed a more admirable courage in confronting democracy and challenging its Materialistic politics.
The social reformer tells the Bishop who thinks democracy has rejected religion that "the hungry sheep look up and are not fed.
Middle class liberalism throughout the world gave its blessings to this revolution, and hastened to welcome a new political democracy to the society of nations.
This is the co-operative movement, which has become the largest single industry in Great Britain, and is the backbone of industrial democracy and sound radicalism.
The first attempt in modern times to accomplish the social revolution and set up industrial democracy was in the Paris Commune.
But industrial democracy was a thing that had not yet happened in the world; it was only a hope and a prophecy, and therefore a prize old Tory was free to ridicule it.
I remember reading somewhere his statement--the notion that democracy had anything to do with industry, or could in any way be applied to industry, was a piece of silliness.
England needed a time of rest in order to cope with the discontent of Ireland and the problems brought about by the growth of democracy and commercialism in the larger island.
Yet, granting all this, it still remains true that Democracy and Nationality have been the two chief formative influences in the political development of Europe during the Nineteenth Century.
Yet it must always be remembered that Democracy has until now never had a fair chance in France.
The fact, however, that there has been no widespread revolt in Russia since the year 1863, shows that democracy has not been the chief influence tending to dissolve or suppress discontent.
Members of the House of Orleans are said to have taken part in the overtures, perhaps with the view of helping on the hypnotising influence which alliance with the autocracy of the East exerts on the democracy of the West.
On the other hand, democracy and social intercourse told in favour of the French connection.
But, in truth, French democracy was then entering on a new phase at home.
Thus it came about that the parties of progress found themselves almost helpless or even discredited; and the young giant of Democracysuddenly stooped and shrivelled as if with premature decay.
The great Emperor unconsciously called into vigorous life the forces of Democracy and Nationality both in Germany and in Italy, where there had been naught but servility and disunion.
Never before has embattled democracychallenged the principle of tyranny for the possession of the world.
France has the real jewel of democracy and we have only got the paste.
We can't have the root of democracyin our souls if the tree flowers into coronets and gee-gaws.
The advent of democracy has brought home to her her social responsibilities.
There is no salvation for a democracy which does not change the direction of the motive in the heart of the individual citizen.
Can anybody imagine that democracy can long endure if the ruling motive of the citizen in his relation to the commonwealth is a purpose to get as much out of it as he can and give it as little as he can?
She had been afraid of appearing stiff or priggish, but her self-consciousness quickly vanished in the broad, wholesome democracy of college life.
Allen wanted to see and if possible meet the local characters of whom he read in the newspapers; and he began joining Harwood in visits to the hotels at night, hoping that these wonderful representatives of American democracy might appear.
But our immediate business is the choice of a ticket behind which the Hoosier Democracy will move on to victory in November like an army with banners.
Free her of the wicked bosses, boil the corruption out of her, and the grand old Hoosier Democracy will appear once more upon the mountain tops as the bringer of glad tidings.
Allen earnestly protested that he still believed in the American Idea, the Great Experiment; but if democracy should fail he was ready to take up socialism.
The democracy of the veranda, the good humor and ready give and take of the young women delighted him.
In our land of the great snows and the hard years a very real and simple democracy plus energy and some real knowledge of the problems in hand were the only qualities that put a big boss ahead.
With the brain ofdemocracy goes the right to think.
The saying among business men and merchants in case of quarrel, "The customer is always right," has to be in the long run treated in a democracy as if it were approximately true.
If the Kaiser had done this in Germany, Germany would have been the greatest democracy in the world and the greatest nation.
This is whatDemocracy is to me--Democracy is a belief in the faithfulness, ability and shrewd good-heartedness of crowds and their power to select great and true leaders.
Then when we have democracy working in a thousand factories, we will advertise and transplant our working democracy, our factory democracies, abroad.
What the Air Line League proposes to do (Further details later) is to arrange through its local and national branches to answer the sneer of the Germans that crowds and experts in democracy can not find a way to keep this up.
In a democracy the autocracy is based on touching men's imaginations, on making people want to fall into line in the right order.
All this sounds as if I were getting far from my happy ending, and you begin to see me asking the old question, "Is democracy a failure?
Democracy is an artificial edifice imposed upon a society which is in all other than its political aspects entirely primitive.
Wait a thousand years until democracy has had a real chance.
There is democracy and there is timidity and stupidity; there is the appeal to low intelligence; the compulsion to be a best seller rests upon us all.
Second, in a democracy the press and public men had to flatter the mass of voters and readers by declaring on every possible occasion that wisdom reposed in their breasts.
And this very interchangeability of names suggests that you must go further back than democracy to find the cause of today's sterility.
When modern democracy got its start, kings by their folly had shaken faith in their divine right.
Once he is, and it will take a long time for him to admit that he is, there may be a real chance for democracy and for the emergence of great individuals, who are after all the best evidence of civilization.
The founders of modern democracy knew there could be no government without a miraculous quality.
Everybody agrees that we owe most of the pleasant illusions upon which this democracy of ours is based to Rousseau.
A nation does not become a democracy by writing on a bit of paper, "resolved that we are a democracy, with a government consisting of executive, legislative, and judicial branches chosen by majority vote.
Creating an autocracy is an act of faith; democracy is work.
We read about democracy in the newspapers; once every two years or every four years we go through certain motions which vaguely relate to democracy, and which are not convincing motions.
Democracy has a fair appearing name which conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all from equal laws, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title.
The author of this speech died shortly after,--a man who had always, more conspicuously than his predecessors, held democracy in honor above everything.
But we understand democracy to mean, not the gratification of the taste of the many to the exclusion of that of the few, but the satisfaction of all tastes.
The parliamentary struggle became then not only a defense of abstract ideals of democracy but also a bitter battle in defense of class interests.
Sidenote: Foreign Fears] In thus throwing down the gauntlet to all the monarchs of Europe and in putting the issue clearly between democracy and the old regime, the French revolutionaries took a dangerous step.
It was under the leadership of such men that the proletariat grew ever more radical until they sought by force to establish democracy in France.
The invention of printing towards the close of the fifteenth century gradually revolutionized the pursuit of knowledge and created a real democracy of letters.
The ideas of nationalism and of democracy are essentially modern in their expression.
It was a political idea as popular in the seventeenth century as that ofdemocracy is to-day.
Zwingli aimed at a reformation of government and discipline as well as of theology, and entertained a notion of an ideal state in which the democracy would order human activities, whether political or religious.
Thenceforth the Jacobin Club was a most effective instrument for establishing social democracy (although it was not committed to republicanism until August, 1792), and Robespierre was its oracle.
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
The devotion of democracy to education is a familiar fact.
But if democracy has a moral and ideal meaning, it is that a social return be demanded from all and that opportunity for development of distinctive capacities be afforded all.
Democracy cannot flourish where the chief influences in selecting subject matter of instruction are utilitarian ends narrowly conceived for the masses, and, for the higher education of the few, the traditions of a specialized cultivated class.
Well, had any of them anything to do with the overthrow of the democracy there?
But there is one safeguard which all sensible men possess by nature--a safeguard which is a valuable protection to all, but above all to a democracy against a tyrant.
For my part I believe that it is right to restore the exiled democracy of Rhodes.
I have often heard it stated here in your presence, that when ourdemocracy had met with disaster,[n] you were joined by certain others in your anxiety for its preservation.
With such a social class democracy is the only acceptable form of government.
The future of American democracy is the future of the American wage-earner.
In proportion as they move up in the scale through the entrance of immigrants in the lower positions, they transfer their allegiance from democracy to plutocracy.
With the progress of white democracy in place of the old aristocracy, as seen in South Carolina, hostility to the negro may be expected to increase.
The very qualities of intelligence and manliness which are essential for citizenship in a democracy were systematically expunged from the negro race through two hundred years of slavery.
Closely connected with race division in its effect upon democracy are the divisions between social classes.
The moderation of political parties in Athens, when the Thirty were put down and the democracy restored, receives its due meed of praise: but the peculiar merit claimed for Athens, in reference to the public events between 403 B.
Democracy is the least bad, because it is least of a government 270 The true governor distinguished from the General, the Rhetor, &c.
Accordingly, assuming the absence of laws, democracy is the least bad or most tolerable of the six varieties of sham-polity.
Democracy is the least bad, because it is least of a government.
