Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

We Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not "in the name of capitalism," but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Freedom of conscience, of education, of speech, of assembly are among the very fundamentals of democracy and all of them would be nullified should freedom of the press ever be successfully challenged.