A democracy that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
Democracy Quotes
We are a nation that has a government – not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y.
Democracy equals inflation.
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Your true savage, reserved, dignified, and courteous, knows how to mask his feelings, even in the face of the most desperate assault upon them; your civilized man is forever yielding to them. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes.
We’ve never been in a democracy; we’ve always been in a phallocracy!
Although we the people have delegated limited responsibilities to those who hold public office in the interest of all of us, we, nevertheless, retain ultimate responsibility. We cannot delegate it; it belongs to us. We may fulfill it well or poorly, but still we have it.
What we are looking at, I suspect, is the suicide of democracy – as clumsy and noisy an affair as the suicide of a whale or a locomotive. Whether or not Hitler has invented anything better I can’t make out. But it seems to me to be pretty clear that we are in for some […]
Democracy… is a system of self-determination. It’s the right to make the wrong choice.
