Democracy Quotes | Sayings on the Spirit of Democracy - Page 4

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

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment
– Aristotle

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…democracy cannot survive overpopulation…
– Isaac Asimov

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To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness.
– Mohandas Gandhi

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Democracy is the most veiled form of tyranny.

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Anti-democracy…is a virus that exists, and pro-democracy is the antibody to that virus, and I think we have to become vigilant, and we have to stay on top of the issues of democracy and freedom.
– Harry Belafonte

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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
– Dave Barry

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Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

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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

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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
– G. K. Chesterton

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A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy
– Theodore Roosevelt

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Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
– Edward Albee

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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
– Aristotle

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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
– H. L. Mencken

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A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.

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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
– Thomas Jefferson

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Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
– Plato

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The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
– Gunther Grass

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So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
– Roger Nash Baldwin

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Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
– Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

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