Democracy

QUOTES

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
 E B White
 1944

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you wanted to hear.
 Alan Coren
 

After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
 Brooks Atkinson
 Once Around the Sun, 1951

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
 Tom Stoppard
 Jumpers, 1972

...government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
 Abraham Lincoln
 Gettysburg Address, 1863

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
 James Fenimore Cooper
 

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.
 Lord Acton
 

...democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried...
 Winston Churchill
 1947

Democracy sustitutes election by the incompetent many, for appointment by the corrupt few.
 G B Shaw
 Man and Superman, 1903

See Also Government Leadership

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