Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Henry Louis Mencken
We`d all like to vote for the best man but he`s never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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
In America, anyone can become president. That`s one of the risks you take.
Adlai E. Stevenson
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Aristotle
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Henry Louis Mencken
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
Adlai E. Stevenson
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.
Mark Twain
Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
Giorgio Armani
Everything secret degenerates; nothing is safe that does not bear discussion and publicity.
John Acton
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J. Peter