Herbert Croly Quotes

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A democratic government must always be left free to be operated upon by the will of the majority of the time being. All that the government of the day can do is to ascertain what now appears to be the best principle.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

Americans invented not simply a new form of government but an entirely new concept of politics.

Democracy is a process that doesn't march in lock step.

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

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

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation.

The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.