Democracy Quotes
35 quotations about Democracy
Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Democracy without morality is impossible.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.
Authors on Democracy
Dave Barry
William F. Buckley
Grover Cleveland
James F. Cooper
John Dryden
Edward M. Forster
Allen Ginsberg
Mikhail Gorbachev
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Langston Hughes
Jack Kemp
Florence King
Gerhard Kocher
Karl Kraus
Irving Kristol
Abraham Lincoln
James Russell Lowell
H. L. Mencken
Ralph Nader
Chris Patten