Democracy is not a very good form of governance, as we can see in some countries, but with all its drawbacks we have no other form that is better. So until the time there is, we have to make do with Democracy.
As Winston Churchill reminded: “It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Which is why:
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election..
~Bill Vaughn
Here are some democracy quotes:
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
~Oscar Wilde
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
~ H.L. Mencken
“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.”
~Benjamin Disraeli
“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
“The purpose of government is to rein in the rights of the people.”
~Bill Clinton
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
~George Bernard Shaw
“The most may err as grossly as the few.”
~John Dryden
“The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.”
~ Elbridge Gerry
“The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied.”~Otto Hermann Kahn
“I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.”
~Mark Twain
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
~Plato
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
~Aristotle
“Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.”
~Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling buisness: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.”
~Thomas Carlyle
“Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.”
~Nigel Rees
“Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.”
~Plato
“The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.”
~Thomas Jefferson
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
~Benjamin Disraeli
“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
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
~ Winston Churchill
“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
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.” ~Mignon McLaughlin
A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar..
~H.L. Mencken
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”
~Josh Billings
“Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself.”
~Carl Gustav Jung
“I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.”
~Woodrow T. Wilson
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
~Aristotle
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
~ Sydney J. Harris
“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists”.
~Abbie Hoffman
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions: it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
~ Irving Kristol
“If democracy is such a good thing, let’s have more of it.”
~Dick Gregory
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