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| Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' (Reinhold Niebuhr) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. (George Bernard Shaw) | [▲] | [▼] |
| All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. (Alfred Emanuel Smith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. (Alfred Emanuel Smith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. (Alfred Emanuel Smith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. (Alfred Emanuel Smith) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. (Walt Whitman) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits. (David Spitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are democratic communists and totalitarian capitalists. (David Spitz) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed? (John Cotton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. (Walter Winchell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. (Norman Cousins) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. (Abraham Lincoln) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen. (G. Norman Collie) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. (Harry Emerson Fosdick) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. (Jawaharlal Nehru) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. (John Patrick) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. (James Russell Lowell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Abraham Lincoln) | [▲] | [▼] |