Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.
Benito Mussolini
In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
James Madison
Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.
Barber B. Conable, Jr.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
Grover Cleveland
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Atlee
In our egalitarian democracy we have just about empowered a branch of the government, the FHA, to specify the size and shape of the typical American suburban master bedroom in which all Americans are thus created equal.
Peter Blake
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
Art Spander
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather Boa!
Allen Ginsberg
The Net is the ultimate empowerment tool. You have the right to express your opinion to a global audience, but everyone has the right not to pay any attention to it.
Don Rittner
While democracy must have its organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
Charles Evans Hughes
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Alexander Woollcott
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter
It is the Democratic Congress, the liberal-biased media and the homosexuals who want to destroy all Christians.
Pat Robertson
Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has some.
Wendy Kaminer
Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
Nigel Rees
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
Mogens Jallberg
While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.
Madeleine Albright
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
E. B. White
What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.
Bill Maher
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Alexis De Tocqueville
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
Meg Greenfield
America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today.
Lincoln Kirstein
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Tom Stoppard
The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.
Charles de Montesquieu
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Augusto Pinochet
With supreme irony, the war to "make the world safe for democracy" ended by leaving democracy more unsafe in the world than at any time since the collapse of the revolutions of 1848.
James Harvey Robinson
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
Jeff Melvoin
The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people.
James Fenimore Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
James Fenimore Cooper
Rittner's Computer Law: "Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour."
Don Rittner
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.
Louis L'Amour
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Claude Pepper
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
Sir Winston Churchill
The people can have anything they want, the only problem is they do not want anything.
Eugene Debs
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
Oscar Wilde
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.
Thomas Jefferson
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Robert Byrne
The world must be made safe for democracy.
Woodrow Wilson
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
G. K. Chesterton
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
J. William Fulbright
I wouldn't talk about a great triumph for democracy as a way to describe this.
David Mack
Lack of democracy in Venezuela.
Julio Borges
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Avram Noam Chomsky
I think it's a pretty sad day for democracy. It's a pretty sad day for the peace process.
Peter Alter
For the victims it's extremely difficult but that's the way democracy works.
Pablo Garcia
Democracy is not about making speeches. It is about making committees work.
Alan Bullock
It's close to democracy, if not true democracy. Our problems are being solved.
Abdul Rashid
People do not only want democracy but justice too.
Suhas Chakma
This is a democracy not an anarchy. We have a system in the country to change rules. When you are on the Supreme Court, you can make that decision.
Robert Stutman
The whole thing has been a very childish exercise and this is the price of democracy.
Mahesh Bhatt
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
Stanley Fish
Reform of the courts, a return to democracy and the demise of the 'crooks' currently running the country.
Imran Khan
I've always been a petition-signer. I always believe in freedom of expression and absolute democracy.
Henry Flores
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
Robert F. Kennedy
It was a dictatorship, not a democracy.
Bob Holmes
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Joseph A. Schumpeter
Will have to give us free, fair elections and democracy .
Ali Zardari
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Charles Frankel
Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.
David Brinkley
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Florence King
Whether China will turn to fascism, militarism or democracy, these two years will make it clear.
Fan Yafeng
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
Ralph Nader
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lectures about democracy from Unionists.
Gerry Kelly
Americans cannot teach democracy to the world until they restore their own.
William Greider
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
James Russell Lowell
All through school, we are building on those concepts of democracy.
Judy Trujillo
This is a manifestation that democracy in our country is very much alive, and protected by both government and people.
Fidel Ramos
We have no democracy in the most important area of our lives ... work.
Ralph Leck
Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.
William Blum
Of course the debate and the bitterness is disturbing. But, after all, we are a democracy, and that is what democracy is about ... people will have differences of opinion.
John Vines
My loyalty is to the Republic.... to DEMOCRACY.
Obi Wan Kenobi
We don't really have a representative democracy if we don't have participation of most of our people.
Pat Mansard
India's problem isn't too much democracy, it's too much socialism.
Prannoy Roy
It's the whole concept of democracy you're really looking at there. It's amazing to see how it moves people.
Dj Garrity
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
The love of democracy is that of equality.
Charles de Montesquieu
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke
He thinks he can be an ambassador for democracy around the world. It's admirable, but also agony for a parent.
Shatha Atiya
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
Dan Quayle
Defender and promoter of freedom and democracy.
Silvio Berlusconi
I like the noise of democracy.
James Buchanan
Democracy doesn't exist in Italy.
Maurizio Zamparini
Mark a defeat for democracy.
Paul Tyler
If our democracy is to flourish, it must have criticism; if our government is to function it must have dissent.
Henry Commager
And is Saudi Arabia a democracy, or Kuwait?
Jose Vicente Rangel
There is a culture in the Liberal party that is unacceptable in a democracy.
Jack Layton
The appointments are unconstitutional, motivated and a barrier to the development of democracy, which cannot be accepted, and we reject it.
Abdul Jalil
Here's to democracy. May we get the government we deserve.
Rick Mercer
What this is, is an expression in free-market democracy.
Paul Wolfe
I really think it's important in a democracy that people have a choice.
Stephen Winslow
Our interests in security and our interests in democracy are indivisible.
Daniel Fried
Democracy is a big advantage for us. It is not the only advantage, but it is definitely one big advantage.
Malvinder M. Singh
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
H. L. Mencken
I'll say yes, yes to the constitution with all 10 of my fingers, ... My daughters were so excited, and I wanted the new generation to see democracy.
Abdul Karim
Democracy demands an opposition party.
Ben Manski
You don't have a democracy. It's a photocracy.
Robert G. Menzies
The Americans agreed, but on one condition -- that the principles of democracy should be respected.
Saleh Al mutlak
It's in the interest of that district that democracy be preserved.
Lawrence M. Otter
We invite the public to speak. That's democracy in action, ... But I will not have any more recommendations to the board.
Art Johnson
Our democracy and freedom has been put into question.
Moritz Leuenberger
The problem with democracy is sometimes people you don't like get elected.
William Leogrande
The Americans say they brought democracy -- yes, we have democracy, but on paper.
Busho Ibrahim Ali
What they are doing is they are killing democracy and the primaries.
Kadoura Fares
I do the people's work, and this is a democracy.
Bill Dwyer
The only place where democracy comes before work is in the dictionary.
Ralph Nader
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Aaron Brown
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The essence of a democracy is a free electorate.
Arlen Specter
The beginning of a change to democracy and the rule of law in Turkey.
Guenter Verheugen
They think we are propaganda for democracy. They want to shut us up. But they can't shut me up.
Albert Cheng
Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
You need to let it take its course like it's supposed to. That's democracy.
Michele Schalin
The Palestinian people should not be punished because they chose democracy.
Mahmud Abbas
Has no confidence (in Mexico) and doesn't treat it like a modern democracy.
Fabian Nunez
It's cheaper to support democracy than to have to clean up the ravages of an autocratic regime.
William Swing
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Sir Winston Churchill
Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried.
Stuart Chase
It is potentially dangerous for democracy. It could lead to an authoritarian exercise of power.
Teodoro Petkoff
Democracy is taking a hit here tonight.
Kermit Staggers
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken
Need to answer to the American people for their craven tactics that degrade our democracy.
David Wade
My campaign's effort to achieve democracy is fruitful because the theocracy cannot change.
Akbar Atri
Democracy is always on the shoulders of brave people.
Ali Kerimli
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
Johnny Carson
I still believe that there are definitely costs to anonymity, but stifling anonymous speech is a huge cost to democracy.
Joichi Ito
This case asks us: Who exactly is our democracy being forged for?
Carrie Shelver
I think democracy is there to stay. The people believe in it.
Richard White
Israel is a beacon of freedom and democracy in the Middle East.
Paul Gourley
A vote for this issue is a vote against democracy.
Carlos Ramos
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
Dennis Chavez
To adopt democracy as a tool to advance its foreign policies.
Mustafa Hamarneh
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Chris Patten
I urge everyone to come out to vote to preserve democracy.
Thaksin Shinawatra's
Our democracy is a democracy under siege.
Mangala Samaraweera
Poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.
Alejandro Toledo
Democracy is not about one party dominating.
Ed Townsend
I hope it can bring more conscience to the people in the Communist Party, and more freedom and more democracy to China.
Zhang Jiankang
Everyone is taking part in the construction of a new democracy.
Ernesto Zedillo
Great fiesta of democracy.
Ernesto Zedillo
If it's good for China, opening up and encouraging democracy and so on, why isn't it good for Cuba?
Eric Thomas
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