"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Adams, John on Democracy
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"Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told."

Barry, Dave on Democracy
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"Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust."

Baudrillard, Jean on Democracy
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"The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years."

Bevan, Aneurin on Democracy
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"We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much."

Bianco, Robert on Democracy
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"The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry."

Buckley, William F. on Democracy
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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on Democracy
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"It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

Churchill, Winston on Democracy
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"Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."

Churchill, Winston on Democracy
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"The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard."

Cleveland, Grover on Democracy
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"The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity."

Cooper, James F. on Democracy
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"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."

Debs, Eugene V. on Democracy
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"Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few."

Dryden, John on Democracy
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"Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid."

Dylan, Bob on Democracy
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"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism."

Forster, Edward M. on Democracy
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"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people."

Fosdick, Harry Emerson on Democracy
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"When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it."

Galbraith, John Kenneth on Democracy
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"Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!"

Ginsberg, Allen on Democracy
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"The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy."

Gorbachev, Mikhail on Democracy
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"Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life."

Gorbachev, Mikhail on Democracy
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"Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections."

Greenfield, Meg on Democracy
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"The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land."

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on Democracy
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"I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me."

Hughes, Langston on Democracy
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"It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on Democracy
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"The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and intelligent man can help rebelling against. Who are the people that make up the biggest proportion of the population -- the intelligent ones or the fools? I think we can agree it's the fools, no matter where you go in this world, it's the fools that form the overwhelming majority."

Ibsen, Henrik on Democracy
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