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Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.
Is America truly a democracy? Has America ever been a democracy with the institution of slavery?
Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.
So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised
In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.
The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.
The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart.
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.
I dont think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.
For our democracy has been marred by imperialism, and it has been enlightened only by individual and sporadic efforts at freedom.
A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.
To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.
Taiwan's democracy has grown very fast and we enjoy a certain degree of freedom, as other developed democracies like the United States.
Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.
I don't like the current political system in the USA and some other countries. Increasingly democracy has been hijacked by corporate interests.
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.
The paradox of American democracy has been that its slogan of equal opportunity has meant, often, equal opportunity to get power over your fellows.
In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.
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.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
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.
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.
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.