As delegates of government, we desired to obey, and thereby prove to all, friends and dissidents, by setting an example of moderation and respect of duty, that democracy is not only the greatest of all political principles, but also the most scrupulous of governments.

Democracies, he says, are usually the best calculated to direct the end of a law.

But, on the other hand, democracy is a kind of religion, and we are bound not to admit its failure.

For two thousand years Christianity has been an operative force in the world; for more than a century democracy has been the controlling influence in the public affairs of Europe and the Americas; for two generations education, free, general and comprehensive, has been the rule in the West.

Democracy is still chiefly an aspiration, it is a spirit, it is an idea; for the most part its methods are still to seek.

Democracy, as elsewhere has been said, is the earthly hope of men; and they who stand apart, in fancied superiority to mankind, which is by creation equal in destiny, and in fact equal in the larger part of human nature, however obstructed by time and circumstance, are foolish withdrawers from the ways of life.

Democracy, like a tree, is a thing of slow growth, and it requires a congenial soil.

DEMOCRACY Democracy is a prophecy, and looks to the future; it is for this reason that it has its great career.

Democracy is not merely a political experiment; and its governmental theory, though so characteristic of it as not to be dissociated from it, is a result of underlying principles.

Democracy, of which Savonarola was so fiery an exponent, is the hardest of gospels; there is nothing that so terrifies men as the decree that they are all kings.

XV DEMOCRACY AND EDUCATION All just government is a transient device to make ordered progress possible.

Democracy Democracy is thisto hold

"A democracy is the most absurd constitution, productive of anarchy and mischief, which must always happen when the government of a nation depends upon the caprice of the ignorant, harebrained vulgar.

First, the long struggle of the Anglo-Saxons for personal liberty is definitely settled, and democracy becomes the established order of the day.

Democracy is a mode of dealing with souls.

Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, and have often been found incompatible with the personal security and rights of property, and have generally been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

Our democracy, the boast of all English-speaking nations, is a dream; not the doubtful and sometimes disheartening spectacle presented in our legislative halls, but the lovely and immortal ideal of a free and equal manhood, preserved as a most precious heritage in every great literature from the Greeks to the Anglo-Saxons.

It has been well said that a democracy is the strongest government for defence, the weakest for attack.

Democracy is not a mere form of government.

Democracy is a spirit and an atmosphere, and its essence is trust in the moral instincts of the people.

My hon. friend the Member for Leeds said that democracy was entirely opposed to, and would resist, the doctrine of the settled fact.

I began by saying that this is the first time that British democracy in its full strength, as represented in this House, is face to face with the enormous difficulties of Indian Government.

Although we believe that envy, and its attendant evil detraction, are peculiarly democratic vices, meaning thereby that democracy is the most fertile field in which these human failings luxuriate, yet is there much reason to think that our parent nation is preeminent in the exhibition of the peculiarity first mentioned.

The great men who appeared upon the stage at that period, profiting by the experience of past ages, threw certain guards around the franchise in every State in the Union, varying in different States, but all bearing unmistakeable testimony to the fact, that a perfect democracy was not the basis on which they ever contemplated building up the Republic.

Democracy is the embodiment of freedom, which in itself is but a principle.