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

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
Thomas Jefferson

Information is the currency of democracy.
Thomas Jefferson

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill

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

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.
Ronald Reagan

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
Ronald Reagan

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mohandas Gandhi

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.
Mohandas Gandhi

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
P. J. O'Rourke

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.
John F. Kennedy

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

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan

Democracy is the road to socialism.
Karl Marx

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw

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

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.
Voltaire