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Democratic

adjective

Characterized by or advocating or based upon the principles of democracy or social equality. "A democratic country" , "A democratic scorn for bloated dukes and lords"

Belong to or relating to the Democratic Party.

Representing or appealing to or adapted for the benefit of the people at large. Synonym: popular. "A democratic or popular movement" , "Popular thought" , "Popular science" , "Popular fiction"

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"Democratic" Quotes from Famous Books

... endure on this continent, and certainly cannot control, whether it be in the sphere of ecclesiasticism or commercialism. This, then, is the sure ground for optimism. Religion is a necessity in a nation. What shall the type of religion be in America? The answer is clear, for Protestantism is democratic, ...

— Aliens or Americans? • Howard B. Grose

... me in Russia, in the course of a conversation with Alexis Aladyn, the brilliant leader of the Social Democratic party. I said to him that I had been informed that the conservative reformers, as well as the radicals, included woman suffrage in their programs. Aladyn looked puzzled for a moment, and then he replied: "All parties desire universal ...

— What eight million women want • Rheta Childe Dorr

... grow from the grain of mustard seed until now, when its branches overshadow the whole earth, we have been constantly warned against the evils which this autocratic system would entail. Especially were we told that in a democratic age the people would never stand the establishment of what was described as a spiritual despotism. It was contrary to the spirit of the times, it would be a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to the masses to whom we appeal, and so forth and ...

— "In Darkest England and The Way Out" • General William Booth

... with the English lies in the absence of something one may call democratic imagination. We find it easy to realise an individual, but very hard to realise that the great masses consist of individuals. Our system has been aristocratic: in the special sense of there being only a few actors on the stage. And the back scene is kept quite dark, though it is ...

— Utopia of Usurers and other Essays • G. K. Chesterton

... show the dramatic quality of his lyrics by finally placing at the very beginning the Cavalier Tunes and The Lost Leader; for the former voice in eloquent language the hatred of democratic ideas, and the latter, in language equally strenuous, is a glorification of democracy. Imagine Browning himself saying what he places in the mouth of his gallant cavaliers— "Hampden to hell!" In the second, The Lost Leader, nothing was farther from Browning's own feelings ...

— Robert Browning: How To Know Him • William Lyon Phelps

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