Democrats
['deməkræts]
Examples
- So we who are democrats need not believe that the people are necessarily right in their choice: some of us are always in the minority, and not a little proud of the distinction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- He set out to make the campaign a battle between the Progressives and the Democrats--the old discredited Republicans fell back into a rather dead conservative minority. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Our modern idea, that any one in the state is a citizen, would have shocked the privileged democrats of Athens profoundly. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the democrats adhere to the multitude of choices because logic requires them to. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Is it possible that Republicans, Democrats and Socialists clip the wings more than free spirits can allow? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Absolute democrats can also line up their witnesses: the conservatism of the Swiss, Wisconsin's successful experiments, the patience and judgment of the Danes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But no one need go abroad for actual experience: in the United States Senate during the Taft administration there were really three parties--Republicans, Insurgents and Democrats. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- They were Catholics, Democrats and old-fashioned trade-unionists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mystical democrats are rare. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Just as the democrats made a sort of fetich of the words, 'the people,' so you make one of the word 'proletariat. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A new political party was growing up in the state, the Social Democrats, professing the doctrines of Marx. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Parliament was divided by three factions, aristocrats, democrats, and royalists. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Mystical democrats believe that an election expresses the will of the people, and that that will is wise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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