“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.”
“I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.”
“The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.”
“Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.”
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
“The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.”
“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
“When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.”
“Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.”
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.”
“Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.”
“Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.”
“The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.”
“Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.”
“It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.”
“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.”
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”
“Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.”
“Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.”
“Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.”
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
“We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.”
“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.”
“It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.”
“A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.”
“Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.”
“What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.”
“The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.”