Democracy Quotes

The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

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

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.

A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.

Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

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

In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.