How we dare even prate about democracy is beyond me. Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale. It’s far worse than anything that occurred in the Roman empire, until the praetorian guard started to sell the principate. We’re not a democracy, and we have absolutely nothing to give the world in the […]
Democracy Quotes
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
The people’s government made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Democracy is itself a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
What’s the point of having a democracy, if everybody’s going to vote wrong?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.
Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy, Of value is thy freight, ’tis not the Present only, The Past is also stored in thee, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone, Earth’s resume entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars, With thee Time […]
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
