Democracy Began

Famous quotes containing the words democracy and/or began:

“New York, you are an Egypt! But an Egypt turned inside out. For she erected pyramids of slavery to death, and you erect pyramids of democracy with the vertical organ-pipes of your skyscrapers all meeting at the point of infinity of liberty!”
—Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

“I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)