“Democracy is a whole package of institutional course for arriving at political decisions. It encompasses the spirited artistry of exercising compromise, negotiation, and, indeed, cooperation. If it comes to merely counting votes, it is just a body without soul. ”
Jonathan Chen
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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.”
“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.”
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
