Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

Democracy Is What You Make It!

Not less, but more democracy - that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

Democracy is not just an election, it is our daily life.

Democracy must live as it thinks and think as it lives

We are thus brought to a conception of Democracy not merely as a sentiment which desires the well-being of all men, nor yet as a creed which believes in the essential dignity and equality of all men, but as that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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

Democracy does not mean perfection. It means a chance to fight for improvement.

In a democracy, not everyone gets what they want.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

We are not the consumers of democracy, we are its proprietors.

Democracy is like a street car. You get off when you reach your destination.

We think that democracy can change a lot of things, but we're being fooled, because democracy is not the election. We've been taught that democracy is having elections. And it isn't. Elections are the most horrendous aspect of democracy. It's the most mundane, trivial, disappointing, dirty aspect.

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Democracy is more than a ballot box.

A democratic home is the foundation of a democratic state.

Democracy is still upon its trial. The civic genius of our people is its only bulwark.

Democracy is not something you believe in or a place to hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles.

Liberty and equality ... will best be attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

Democracy is not elections. Democracy includes elections.

Democracy is moral before it is political.

Democracy is a value in itself. It doesn't have to be defended [justified] any more than freedom has to be defended.

A democracy requires a certain amount of common ground.