Famous Quotes
310 Quotations with Democracy.
- 21. H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve ...
- 22. George Bernard Shaw: Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment ...
- 23. H. L. Mencken: Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
- 24. President Harry Truman: Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritua ...
- 25. Lazarus Long: Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. ...
- 26. Paddy Chayefsky: Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- 27. Jose Marie Gil Robles: An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take ...
- 28. Robert Byrne: Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- 29. H. L. Mencken: Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- 30. James Russell Lowell: Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
- 31. Aldous Huxley: A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy mu ...
- 32. H. L. Mencken: Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
- 33. Oscar Wilde: Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
- 34. Clement Richard Atlee: Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can st ...
- 35. Judith Martin: What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is add ...
- 36. John Simon: Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is b ...
- 37. Gustave Flaubert: The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidi ...
- 38. Unknown Russian: Every culture has its distinctive and normal system of government. Yours is demo ...
- 39. Tom Stoppard: It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
- 40. Alan Corenk: Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you t ...