“The principal advantage of a democracy, is a general elevation in the character of the people”
James Fenimore Cooper
“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.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
Abraham Lincoln
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
Walter H. Judd
“Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick
