“One of the building blocks of democracy is that you have to separate the governing party from the political party.”
Don McKinnon
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections”
John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton
“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
“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.”
P. J. O'Rourke
