“There is a culture in the Liberal party that is unacceptable in a democracy,”
Jack Layton
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“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
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
“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 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
