All 18 Uses
democracy
in
Profiles in Courage
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- It was his conviction, like Plato's, that the definition of citizenship in a democracy is participation in Government and that, as Francis Bacon wrote, it is "left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.†
Chpt Frwd.
- It was his conviction that a democracy with this effort by its people must and can face its problems, that it must show patience, restraint, compassion, as well as wisdom and strength and courage, in the struggle for solutions which are very rarely easy to find.†
Chpt Frwd.
- This may not always be easy, but it nevertheless is the essence of democracy, faith in the wisdom of the people and their views.†
Chpt 0.1 *
- I reject this view not because I lack faith in the "wisdom of the people," but because this concept of democracy actually puts too little faith in the people.†
Chpt 0.1
- It is that kind of faith on which democracy is based, not simply the often frustrated hope that public opinion will at all times under all circumstances promptly identify itself with the public interest.†
Chpt 0.1
- So, I believe, are the stories of other Senators of courage—men whose abiding loyalty to their nation triumphed over all personal and political considerations, men who showed the real meaning of courage and a real faith in democracy, men who made the Senate of the United States something more than a mere collection of robots dutifully recording the views of their constituents, or a gathering of time-servers skilled only in predicting and following the tides of public sentiment.†
Chpt 0.1
- It was a time of change—in the Senate, in the concept of our government, in the growth of the two-party system, in the spread of democracy to the farm and the frontier and in the United States of America.†
Chpt 1.0
- Benton and the people, Benton and Democracy are one and the same, sir; synonymous terms, sir, synonymous terms.†
Chpt 2.4
- The Democratic State Convention denounced the great warrior as "not in accordance with the sentiments of the Democracy of Texas."†
Chpt 2.5
- He would rely, he told his audience in that still fascinating voice, "upon the Constitution and the Union, all the old Jacksonian democracy I ever professed or officially practiced......In politics I am an old fogy, because I cling devotedly to those primitive principles upon which our government was founded."†
Chpt 2.5
- But Senator Underwood, convinced that the Klan was contrary to all the principles of Jeffersonian democracy in which he believed, denounced it in no uncertain terms, insisted that this was the paramount issue upon which the party would have to take a firm stand, and fought vigorously but unsuccessfully to include an anti-Klan plank in the party platform.†
Chpt 4.10
- For, as Winston Churchill has said, "Democracy is the worst form of government—except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."†
Chpt 4.11
- But we cannot solve the problems of legislative independence and responsibility by abolishing or curtailing democracy.†
Chpt 4.11
- For democracy means much more than popular government and majority rule, much more than a system of political techniques to flatter or deceive powerful blocs of voters.†
Chpt 4.11
- A democracy that has no George Norris to point to—no monument of individual conscience in a sea of popular rule—is not worthy to bear the name.†
Chpt 4.11
- The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people—faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment—faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor and ultimately recognize right.†
Chpt 4.11
- These stories are the stories of such a democracy.†
Chpt 4.11
- For, in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, "holds office"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities.†
Chpt 4.11
Definitions:
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(1)
(democracy) a system of government in which citizens have power with equal votes
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)