Sheri Berman Quotes

The democratic element has a fortunate effect in the political sphere when it is balanced by another force. We have this advantage over our neighbors, the Americans, who have extreme democracy.

Not all countries are ready for it [democracy].

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

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.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

Democracy is finished in England.

If it was not easy to make a king, it will be even more difficult to make a republic in a country where there are no republicans.

Thou hast entrusted the reins of counsel into the hands of the representatives of the people. Thou, indeed, hast done well, for thereby the foundations of the edifice of thine affairs will be strengthened, and the hearts of all that are beneath thy shadow, whether high or low, will be tranquilized.

A true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

What the world of the twenty-first century calls democracy is in fact the fusion of two distinct political traditions. One is liberty—that is individual freedom. The other is popular sovereignty: rule by the people.

In America we have no need of kings.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.

Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

Ironically, the very fact that democracy has such a lengthy history has actually contributed to confusion and disagreement, for 'democracy' has meant different things to different people at different times and places.

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.

In Canada, nobody is ever overthrown because nobody gives a damn.

Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].