Quotes
Quotes about Democracy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.
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. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.
The ballot is stronger than bullets. - Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
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, and are right.
