Democracy

33 quotes.

• Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

  Winston Churchill

• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

  Attributed to Winston Churchill

• Democracy is not just the right to vote, it is the right to live in dignity.

  Naomi Klein

• ... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  George Bernard Shaw

• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

  Abraham Lincoln

• Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.

  (John Patrick

• Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

  Irving Kristol

• Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

  John Simon

• Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

  Senator Soaper

• Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  George Bernard Shaw

• Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you dont think.

  Anonymous

• Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

  Laurence J. Peter

• Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

  Laurance Peter

• Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

  H. L. Mencken

• Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

• Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  H. L. Mencken

• Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  H. L. Mencken

• Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  James Russell Lowell

• Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.

  Abraham Lincoln

• Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

  E. B. White

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

  H. L. Mencken

• Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

  John Cotton

• In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

  Norman Cousins

• In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

  G. Norman Collie

• It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.

  Mark Twain

• Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

• 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.

  Winston Churchill

• Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

  John Quincy Adams

• The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

  Winston Churchill

• The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

  John Gatsis

• Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

  Walter Winchell

• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

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