Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. – Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote – a very different thing. – Walter H. Judd
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. – Winston Churchill
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. – Aristotle
The key to democracy is an enlightened public.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the road to socialism. – Karl Marx
Democracy is the most veiled form of tyranny.
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, – Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy is essentially a political system that recognizes the equality of humans before the law.
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
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Democracy is a non-stop experiment in the strengths and weaknesses of our political institutions, local communities, and the human heart – and its outcome can never be taken for granted. The experiment is endless, unless we blow up the lab, and the explosives to do the job are found within us. But so also is the heart’s alchemy that can turn suffering into compassion, conflict into community, and tension into energy for creativity amid democracy’s demands. – Parker J. Palmer
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave. – Karl Kraus
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
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
“Democracy” is one of the most important principles for a better world. In its truest sense, a democracy is a community in which all members have an equal say in the running of that community. Unfortunately in reality, democratic societies have fallen short of this ideal. Nevertheless, because of its very nature, once a democracy is established, its citizens can work together to make their society more and more democratic, if they choose to do so. – Robert Alan Silverstein
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – G. K. Chesterton
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. – Kofi Annan
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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