Democracy is itself a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
Democracy Quotes
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 […]
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what […]
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
She (Margaret Thatcher) is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
