E. B. White Quotes

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put it mildly. Either there's democracy, or there isn't.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Constitutional democracy is a Western idea.

I have not given up my faith in democracy - it remains the worst form of government except for all the others - but I have given up my youthful expectation that it would inevitably triumph.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

Democracy is not a mere consequence, a certain stage in the development of society. It is the condition on which the survival of productive forces depends.

Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine.

He who would save liberty must put his trust in democracy.

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way of personal life and one which provides a moral standard for personal conduct.

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.

If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Liberty and democracy are eternal enemies, and every one knows it who has ever given any sober reflection to the matter.

I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the many angry tempests out of which its syllables have come, from pen or tongue. It is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten because that history has yet to be enacted.