Democracy Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Democracy
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~ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ~

~ I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife. ~

~ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~

Alexis de Tocqueville

~ Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. ~

Alexis de Tocqueville

~ The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all. ~

John F. Kennedy

~ We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace. ~

John Sweeney

~ Capitalism is the bastard child of democracy. ~

Doug Moody

~ Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero ~

Edward Abbey

~ As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron ~

H. L. Mencken

~ The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity ~

James Earl

~ Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Information is the currency of democracy ~

Thomas Jefferson

~ Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact ~

Lyndon Baines Johnson

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

Irving Kristol

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

Winston Churchill

~ Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor ~

James Russell Lowell

~ Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few ~

George Bernard Shaw

~ The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy ~

Woodrow Wilson

~ Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think ~

Unknown

~ Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work. ~

Michael Novak

~ It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting ~

Tom Stoppard

~ The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment ~

Robert M. Hutchins

~ Democracy is an abuse of statistics. ~

Jorge Luis Borges

~ Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear ~

Alan Coren

~ Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us ~

P.J. O\'Rourke

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

H.L. Mencken

~ Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. ~

Jean Baudrillard

~ Sri Lanka's problems were caused by too much democracy. ~

John Richardson

~ Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ~

Augusto Pinochet

~ 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

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