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Quotes about Democracy
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“Democracy without morality is impossible.”
“The world must be made safe for democracy.”
“The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.”
“Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.”
“All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.”
“There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.”
“Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.”
“Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.”
“The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.”
“The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.”
“Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!”
“Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.”
“Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
“That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.”
“The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.”
“No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.”
“In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.”
“I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.”
“I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.”
“Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.”
“Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.”
“Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
“The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.”
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
“Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.”
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.”
“America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.”
“Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”