(1280 quotes found)
“Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.”
Aristotle
“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.”
Sydney J. Harris
“To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.”
Louis L'Amour
“The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.”
Edward Dowling
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it”
Alexis de Tocqueville
“Information is the currency of democracy.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.”
Dave Barry
“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.”
Sterling Hayden
“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
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