Democracy Quotes

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

George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

John Dryden

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

Benjamin Disraeli

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

H. L. Mencken

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde

t’s hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news.

Senator John Kerry

A monoculture is not only Hollywood, but Americans trying to export democracy.

Bernardo Bertolucci

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

John F. Kennedy

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

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

Bill Vaughan

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Art Spander

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried

Winston Churchill

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
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