“If he is going to go to war in a nation whose history shows it has never had a democracy -- it has rival tribes, it has minorities that often are antagonistic -- how we're going to create a government that's going to work and function and bring about a democracy after we've destroyed the infrastructure of the country?”
Diane Feinstein
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
Robert Byrne
“The march of freedom and democracy . . . will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”
Ronald Reagan
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.”
Robert Orben
