Democracy Quotes
410 Democracy quotes:
"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."
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"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."
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"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
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"Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth."
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"At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper."
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"The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."
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"Information is the currency of democracy."
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"The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land."
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"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
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"Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
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"Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."
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"Nothing would induce me to vote for giving women the franchise. I am not going to be henpecked into a question of such importance."
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"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."
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"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"
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"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."
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"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 others that have been tried from time to time."
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"One of the evils of democracy is, you have to put up with the man you elect whether you want him or not."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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"Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy"
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