Democracy Quotes

Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

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

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

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

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

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

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

There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.