Democracy

(75 votes)   When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

John Kenneth Galbraith
1908-, American Economist

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(119 votes)   I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(116 votes)   Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

Harry Emerson Fosdick
1878-1969, American Minister

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(115 votes)   The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(112 votes)   Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(95 votes)   America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(94 votes)   Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(92 votes)   I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.

Woodrow T. Wilson
1856-1924, Twenty-eighth President of the USA

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(90 votes)   Everything that is right or natural pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'Tis time to part.

Thomas Paine
1737-1809, Anglo-American Political Theorist, Writer

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(90 votes)   Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden
1631-1700, British Poet, Dramatist, Critic

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(84 votes)   You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(77 votes)   The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan
1897-1960, British Labor Politician

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(76 votes)   Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E(lwyn) B(rooks) White
1899-1985, American Author, Editor

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(76 votes)   It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(75 votes)   I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

Langston Hughes
1902-1967, American Poet, Short-story Writer, Playwright

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