democracies
Meaning
of Democracy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.
The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing in democracies it is the only sacred thing.
All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time.