Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.