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- The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. -- Winston Churchill
- Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. -- John Adams
- Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. -- Benito Mussolini
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -- Abraham Lincoln
- 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
- We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both. -- Louis D. Brandeis
- Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. -- Emile M. Cioran
- Democracy without morality is impossible. -- Jack Kemp
- Democracy is not a spectator sport. -- Marian Wright Edelman
- Democracy must learn to defend itself. -- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Democracy can survive anything except Democrats -- Robert A. Heinlein
- Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy. -- Che Guevara
- An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy -- Diane Ravitch
- Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. -- H. L. Mencken
- Democracy fascinates me. -- Lee H. Hamilton
- Democracy is a process. -- Paul Wolfowitz
- Democracy is hard work. -- Barack Obama
- Democracy is about criticism. -- Danny Glover
- Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. -- Isaac Asimov
- Democracy passes into despotism. -- Plato
- Democracy is self-creating coherence. -- Mary Parker Follett
- Democracy is an insecure landscape. -- Terry Tempest Williams
- Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation. -- Iskander Mirza
- Democracy is indispensable to socialism. -- Vladimir Lenin
- Democracy derailed is democracy denied. -- Chaka Fattah
- Democracy needs a moral compass. -- Jill Stein
- Democracy is better than tyranny. -- Periander
- Democracy is good for everybody. -- Manmohan Singh
- Democracy is the best revenge. -- Benazir Bhutto
- Democracy will be dead by 1950. -- John Langdon-Davies
- Democracy is a universal value -- Amartya Sen
- Democracy is good for world peace. -- Manmohan Singh
- Democracy means decision by those concerned. -- Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker
- Democracy is the road to socialism. -- Karl Marx
- Democracy is an abuse of statistics. -- Jorge Luis Borges
- Democracy is a series of choices. -- Paul Ryan
- Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power. -- Lord Acton
- Democracy is not an instant coffee. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Democracy is not about one party dominating. -- Ed Townsend
- Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections. -- Brent Scowcroft
- Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility. -- Dalton Trumbo
- Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion -- Molly Ivins
- Democracy, republics: What do these words signify? -- Haile Selassie
- Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves. -- Stefan Molyneux
- Democracy belongs to those who exercise it. -- Bill Moyers
- Democracy and violence can ill go together. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- Democracy is mob rule with income taxes. -- Gloria Steinem
- Democracy is more than a ballot box. -- Mohamed ElBaradei
- Democracy must be our answer to terrorism -- Angela Merkel
- Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism. -- Florence King
- Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Democracy is moral before it is political. -- Louis D. Brandeis
- Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves. -- Stefan Molyneux
- Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. -- Hillary Clinton
- Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism. -- Andre Malraux
- Democracy is the art of thinking independently together. -- Alexander Meiklejohn
- Dictatorships are one-way streets. Democracy boasts two-way traffic. -- Alberto Moravia
- Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle. -- Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
- Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Democracy doesn't work unless the public is informed. -- Brad Pitt
- Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society. -- Katharine Graham
- I have such respect for 'Democracy Now!' -- Alice Walker
- Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants. -- Seneca the Younger
- Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule. -- Plato
- We must be the great arsenal of Democracy. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Democracy is a danger to any powerful group. -- Noam Chomsky
- Democracy is the most vile form of government. -- James Madison
- Democracy is the best chance for the best people. -- Robert Frost
- Democracy means free television, not good television, but free. -- Johnny Carson
- Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When will people learn? Democracy doesn't work!" (Homer Simpson) -- Matt Groening
- Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry. -- Rick Perry
- Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out. -- Peggy Noonan
- Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail. -- John Dewey
- Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years. -- Noam Chomsky
- Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system. -- Vladimir Putin
- Democracy is too good to share with just anybody. -- Nigel Rees
- When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work. -- Homer
- Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Democracy is too good to share with just anybody -- Nigel Rees
- Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke! -- Walt Whitman
- Democracy is not about protests. Democracy is about meetings. -- David Frum
- Democracy works when people claim it as their own -- Bill Moyers
- Democracy is the best school to learn soft power. -- Joseph Nye
- Democracy is "government of, by and for the people". -- Abraham Lincoln
- Democracy is not a commodity for import and export. -- Prince Hassan bin Talal
- In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. -- J. William Fulbright
- Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion. -- Ellery Sedgwick
- Democracy cannot survive without the guidance of a creative minority. -- Harlan F. Stone
- Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence. -- Mary Ritter Beard
- Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard. -- Douglas Adams
- Democracy and dependence on the military and police are incompatible. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- We are proud of 3 things: Democracy, Demographic dividend and Demand. -- Narendra Modi
- Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition. -- Noam Chomsky
- Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating. -- Ronald Reagan
- Democracy is not theater - it determines life and death! -- Mimi Kennedy
- Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election. -- H. G. Wells
- Democracy is not something we have. It's something we do. -- Doris "Granny D" Haddock
- Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism. -- Irving Babbitt
- Democracy is when the people keep a government in check. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
- The Constitution is America's glue, Democracy is the Constitution's glue. -- Herbert Hoover
- Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds -- Charles I of England
- Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner. -- Robert A. Heinlein
- Democracy must be conceived as a process, not a goal. -- Mary Parker Follett
- Democracy only works when we claim it as our own -- Bill Moyers
- Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed. -- Muhammad Iqbal
- Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do. -- Frances Moore Lappé
- Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them. -- Lee H. Hamilton
- Democracy was being saved from Communism by getting rid of democracy. -- Juan Bosch
- Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy. -- John Dos Passos
- For German Social Democracy, Europe is vital to the national interest. -- Martin Schulz
- Democracy is defended in 3 stages. Ballot Box, Jury Box, Cartridge Box. -- Ambrose Bierce
- Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive. -- Paul Kagame
- Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
- A Democracy is the most vile form of government there is! -- Thomas Paine
- Democracy is always, by nature and constitution, the triumph of mediocrity. -- Indro Montanelli
- Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Democracy does not race, it reaches the finish slowly but surely. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders. -- George Hamilton
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