| 52 Democracy Quotes
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“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde Quotes |
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“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
Winston Churchill Quotes |
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“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle Quotes |
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“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
Sydney J. Harris Quotes |
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“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.”
Thomas Jefferson Quotes |
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“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams Quotes |
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“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln Quotes |
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“You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions”
Patrick Leahy Quotes |
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“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”
Dave Barry Quotes |
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“For poets (bear the word)
Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. 4)
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“A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the
world.”
Edmund Burke Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.”
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron) Quotes Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. XXIV)
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“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 Quotes Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the trees
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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. . . .”
Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the trees
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“Caesarism is democracy without liberty.
[Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]”
Taxile Delord Quotes Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the Trees
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“The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into
politicians.”
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes Source: Lothair (ch. XVII)
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“Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than
ever before.”
Charles Fletcher Dole Quotes Source: The Spirit of Democracy
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“Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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“God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are
self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly
self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his
Maker, divine Truth and Love.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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“Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only
demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for
ourselves.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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“Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only
guarantees equality of opportunity.”
John Dryden Quotes Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)
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“Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious
liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: Among My Books--New England Two Centuries Ago
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“Democ'acy gives every man
A right to be his own oppressor.”
James Russell Lowell Quotes Source: The Biglow Papers (series 2, no. 7)
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“To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray,"
said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."”
Lycurgus Quotes Source: in Plutarch's "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders"
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