| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. |
| Abraham Lincoln | As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. |
| Alfred Emanuel Smith | All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy |
| Alfred Emanuel Smith | Its not the voting thats democracy, its the counting |
| Alfred Emanuel Smith | Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates |
| Alfred Emanuel Smith | Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. |
| Charles Fletcher Dole | Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. |
| David Spitz | Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits. |
| David Spitz | Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are democratic communists and totalitarian capitalists. |
| Edmund Burke | A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. |
| G Norman Collie | In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen. |
| George Bernard Shaw | Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. |
| George Bernard Shaw | ... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". |
| Gilbert K Chesterton | You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. |
| Gilbert Keith Chesterton | 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. . . . |
| H L Mencken | Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. |
| Harry Emerson Fosdick | Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. |
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