(1280 quotes found)
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.”
Aristotle
“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.”
“Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.”
Mark Twain
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.”
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear”
Alan Coren
“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
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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