Norman Thomas Quotes

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.

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

Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.

Democracy is a process.

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

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

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 is a universal value

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

In the long and dogged crusade that the human race has fought in favor of democracy, the ideal of liberty, of freedom, has always been the goal.

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

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

No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

Civil liberty is the power of a civil society or state to govern itself by its own discretion or by laws of its own making, without being subject to the impositions of any power in appointing and directing which the collective body of the people have no concern and over which they have no control

True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

In a democracy, people are supreme.