Walt Whitman on Democracy
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Will Rogers on Democracy
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
Tom Stoppard on Democracy
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
Mogens Jallberg on Democracy
In democracy its your vote that counts.; In feudalism its your count that votes.
Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet on Democracy
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
Laurence J. Peter on Democracy
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
H. L. Mencken on Democracy
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken on Democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
George Bernard Shaw on Democracy
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw on Democracy
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.