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  • Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. - H L Mencken
  • A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. - Norman Mailer
  • Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. - Archibald Macleish
  • What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. - Walter Lippmann
  • Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: ''I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.'' - Walter Lippmann
  • This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. - Walter Lippmann
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. - Gore Vidal
  • No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. - Abraham Lincoln
  • Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself. - Joseph A Schumpeter
  • Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few. - John Dryden
  • Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. - Gore Vidal
  • The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else. - D H Lawrence
  • There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens. - Leon Trotsky
  • All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. - Alfred E Smith
  • I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct -- nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying. - Mark Twain
  • Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr
  • These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not. - Plato
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