Democracy Quotes

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

Few, Election, Corrupt

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

Government, Ideal, Tempered

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

Long, Remember, Soon

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

War, Country, Makes

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.
Barack Obama

Wisdom, Long, Tell

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken

Wisdom, Ignorance, Individual

Democracy passes into despotism.
Plato

Passes, Despotism

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell

Blame, Process, Choose

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Will Rogers

Government, Keep, Matter

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
Plato

Tyranny, Naturally, Arises

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken

Art, Science, Running

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering

Society, Healthy, Decent

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

Politics, Business, Understand

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis

Great, Country, Few

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

Government, Ideal, Tempered

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
H. L. Mencken

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.
Ron Paul

Country, Liberty, Founders

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Government, Means, While

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken

Enjoy, Confess, Idiotic

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

Same, Put, Dream

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Robert M. Hutchins

Death, Apathy, Likely

The worst thing that can happen in a democracy - as well as in an individual's life - is to become cynical about the future and lose hope.
Hillary Clinton

Life, Hope, Future

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Giving, Happen, Around

Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.
Bill Gates

Powerful, Bad, Wonderful

It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning.
George Orwell

Fear, Down, Country

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
Fran Lebowitz

Country, Union, Capitalism

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
Niels Bohr

Best, Weapon, Secrecy

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore Vidal

Great, Place, Elections

A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
Chinua Achebe

Leadership, Healthy, Educated

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