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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
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Alfred E. Smith
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America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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8 votes
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
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Florence King
Florence King books
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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
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Irving Kristol
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
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John Simon
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Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
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James Russell Lowell
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
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Laurence J. Peter
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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
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H. L. Mencken
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Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Oscar Wilde
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
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Karl Kraus
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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Jack Kemp
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Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
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Allen Ginsberg
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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Dave Barry
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53 votes
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.
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Earl Riney
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I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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H. L. Mencken
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes books
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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
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Chris Patten
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Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
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William Penn
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No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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John Dryden
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
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The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
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William F. Buckley
William F. Buckley books
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37 votes
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
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H. L. Mencken
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The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes books
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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
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Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland books
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The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
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Gerhard Kocher
Gerhard Kocher books
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The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
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James F. Cooper
James F. Cooper books
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The world must be made safe for democracy.
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Woodrow T. Wilson
Woodrow T. Wilson books
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There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
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Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader books
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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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Edward M. Forster
Edward M. Forster books
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31 votes