Quotes by democracy

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  • George Bernard Shaw
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic 1856-1950
    George Bernard Shaw
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    Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
  • John Simon
    John Simon
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    Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher 1803-1882
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
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    Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
    Source: Journals
  • Winston Churchill
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman 1874-1965
    Winston Churchill
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    Democracy isn't perfect, I just don't know a better system.
  • Alan Coren
    Alan Coren
    English humourist, writer and satirist 1938-2007
    Alan Coren
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    Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
  • Bill Vaughan
    Bill Vaughan
    American columnist and author 1915-1977
    Bill Vaughan
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    A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
  • A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
  • Henry Louis Mencken
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic 1880-1956
    Henry Louis Mencken
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    Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
  • Benjamin Haydon
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist 1786-1846
    Benjamin Haydon
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    All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.
  • Agnes Repplier
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus 1858-1950
    Agnes Repplier
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    Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
  • Democracy is like a raft: It won't sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
  • Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president 1856-1924
    Woodrow Wilson
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    Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.
  • Henry Louis Mencken
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic 1880-1956
    Henry Louis Mencken
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    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
  • James Russell Lowell
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819-1891
    James Russell Lowell
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    I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.
  • Bayard Rustin
    Bayard Rustin
    American activist 1912-1987
    Bayard Rustin
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    If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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