Democracies Have Quotes

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Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Of the people, by the people, for the people.

Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.

Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.

Government is best which governs least

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.

Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.

The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that I reach for my feather boa!

Democracy has no convictions for which people would be willing to stake their lives.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.