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

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

~ 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, are right ~

H. L. Mencken

~ 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

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

Laurence J. Peter

~ 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

~ Because there is a larger awareness that transcends time and space, an awareness is available after death. ~

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

Oscar Wilde

~ Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be. ~

Sydney J. Harris

~ A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ~

Edmund Burke

~ At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . . ~

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

~ Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits. ~

David Spitz

~ 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, 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

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