Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

When Jefferson and the Republicans rallied to the Union and to the existing Federalist organization, the fabric of traditional American democracy was almost completely woven.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be gradually adapted to that assumption.

Had it not been for the Atlantic Ocean and the virgin wilderness, the United States would never have been the Land of Promise.

Of course, Americans have no monopoly of patriotic enthusiasm and good faith.