(1280 quotes found)
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
“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.”
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“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.”
Aristotle
“Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
John Adams
“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”
“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
Ronald Reagan
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