“Not only is this the greatest achievement of Taiwan's democracy, it is also the pride of Taiwan,”
Dalai Lama
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
Robert Byrne
“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing”
Anatole France
“Judging from all the polls, if you do actually achieve a thorough functioning democracy [in Arab countries], you're probably going to have a government which will be more Islamic, more anti-American and more anti-Israeli.”
Wayne White
