(1273 quotes found)
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.”
Winston Churchill
“Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
Aristotle
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
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