“The candidates also know we have experience of democracy, those of us who live here. We know what to listen for. We know if anything they're saying makes sense. So they come here and they try to convince us, so we'll call our families back home and tell them how to vote.”
Quetel Osterval
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
Thomas Jefferson
“Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.”
Robert Byrne
“Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.”
Agnes Repplier
“Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”
P. J. O'Rourke
“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.”
