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Quote DB :: Government :: Democracy Search in this category Sponsored Links Quote Author Rating Rate "Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame." Laurence Peter "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." Henry Mencken "It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting." Tom Stoppard "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." Winston Churchill "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." Winston Churchill "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right." Henry Mencken "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people." Oscar Wilde "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." Aristotle "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." George Bernard Shaw "What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class." Alexis de Tocqueville "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch." Benjamin Franklin "Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers." Aristotle "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy." Abraham Lincoln "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time." E.B. White "Civilization is the encouragement of differences. Civilization thus becomes a synonym of democracy. Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, is both uncivilized and undemocratic." Mahatma Gandhi "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself." John Adams "There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it." Alexis de Tocqueville "Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few." George Bernard Shaw "Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president." Johnny Carson "Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude." Alexis de Tocqueville 1 2 Next >> Browse Democracy quotes by Author: Abraham Lincoln Alexis de Tocqueville Aristotle Art Spander Benjamin Franklin Calvin Coolidge E.B. White George Bernard Shaw Henry Mencken Hillary Clinton Jesse Jackson John Adams Johnny Carson Laurence Peter Mahatma Gandhi Oscar Wilde Tom Stoppard Winston Churchill

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