All the nations of America have a democratic state of society - Yet democratic institutions only subsist amongst the Anglo-Americans - The Spaniards of South America, equally favored by physical causes as the Anglo-Americans, unable to maintain a democratic republic - Mexico, which has adopted the Constitution of the United States, in the same predicament - The Anglo-Americans of the West less able to maintain it than those of the East - Reason of these different results.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
Though the events of 1858 had created discord in the Democratic party, they had not consolidated the South. Men like Toombs and Stephens were still hopeful of keeping the States together in the old bond of political evasion. The Democratic machine, damaged though it was, had not yet lost its hold on the moderate South, and while that continued to be the case, there was still power in it.英文原著 · 《Abraham Lincoln and the Union》
Nowhere has so much been left by the law to the arbitrary determination of the magistrate as in democratic republics, because this arbitrary power is unattended by any alarming consequences. It may even be asserted that the freedom of the magistrate increases as the elective franchise is extended, and as the duration of the time of office is shortened. Hence arises the great difficulty which attends the conversion of a democratic republic into a monarchy. The magistrate ceases to be elective, but he retains the rights and the habits of an elected officer, which lead directly to despotism.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
A distinction must be made, when the aristocratic and the democratic principles mutually inveigh against each other, as tending to facilitate corruption. In aristocratic governments the individuals who are placed at the head of affairs are rich men, who are solely desirous of power. In democracies statesmen are poor, and they have their fortunes to make. The consequence is that in aristocratic States the rulers are rarely accessible to corruption, and have very little craving for money; whilst the reverse is the case in democratic nations.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
It is difficult to say what degree of exertion a democratic government may be capable of making a crisis in the history of the nation. But no great democratic republic has hitherto existed in the world. To style the oligarchy which ruled over France in 1793 by that name would be to offer an insult to the republican form of government. The United States afford the first example of the kind.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
I am of opinion that a democratic government tends in the end to increase the real strength of society; but it can never combine, upon a single point and at a given time, so much power as an aristocracy or a monarchy. If a democratic country remained during a whole century subject to a republican government, it would probably at the end of that period be more populous and more prosperous than the neighboring despotic States. But it would have incurred the risk of being conquered much oftener than they would in that lapse of years.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The Democratic Senate will not be inclined to remove a Democratic president.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
He's the likely keynote speaker at the next Democratic Convention, and if he has a skeleton in his closet, I do not want him blowing up in the face of the Democratic Committee.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
We're a democratic institution, and unfortunately, democratic institutions change their minds.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》
He's not being "Railroaded." He's a Democratic governor being judged by a Democratic jury.美剧 · 《The Good Wife》