Democracy
"... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy."
By : Alex Carey
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"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine."
By : Thomas Jefferson
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"A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
By : H. L. Mencken
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"A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world."
By : Edmund Burke
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"A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will."
By : Reinhold Niebuhr
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"Abraham Lincoln did not go to Gettysburg having commissioned a poll to find out what would sell in Gettysburg. There were no people with percentages for him, cautioning him about this group or that group or what they found in exit polls a year earlier. When will we have the courage of Lincoln?"
By : Robert Coles
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"All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy."
By : Alfred Emanuel Smith
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"America's support for human rights and democracy is our noblest export to the world."
By : William J. Bennett
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"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
By : Plato
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"And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter."
By : Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
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"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
By : Alfred Emanuel Smith
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"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
By : H. L. Mencken
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"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
By : Abraham Lincoln
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"As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences."
By : Eugene McCarthy
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"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
By : George Washington
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