Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Democracy Quotes
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.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
She (Margaret Thatcher) is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
A conquest made by a democracy is always odious to the subject states. It becomes thereby monarchical by a fiction, but it is always more oppressive than a monarchy, as the experience of all times and ages shows.
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
