Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
Aristotle
People shouldn’t be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.
Alan Moore
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?
Mahatma Gandhi
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H.L. Mencken
It democracy it’s your vote that counts; in feudalism it’s yours count that votes.
Mogens Jallberg
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston Churchill
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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.
Aristotle