Max Lerner Quotes

And in Canada we, you know, it costs us three or $400 million to have an election. You know, it's always been my position that we shouldn't complain about that; that's the price of admission for a living in a great democracy.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Democracy belongs to those who exercise it.

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

If you can exchange information freely, isn’t that almost a definition of democracy.

The people's government has come to be less and less the people's business.

Democracy means not merely, I had almost said not so much, the rights of the whole people, as the duties of the whole people.

This is one of the finest expressions of U. S. democracy at work.

Democracy is more than just election day.

Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.

The great postulate of our democracy is confidence in the common sense of the people and in their maturity of judgment, even on great issues—once they know the facts.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

We are not perfect. Democracy is a messy business … Democracy depends on people getting and keeping involved … In our democracy, the government is not them; it is us.

All of us today are learning democracy. We are only now forming a political culture.

Free and open communications is the best guarantee of democracy.

One of the greatest things that we provide in our democracy is the approachability of public officials.

In democracies the people seem to act as they please.

We need to learn democracy. Everything takes time.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.