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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. – Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. – Robert Byrne
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. – Jawaharlal Nehru
Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. – Ronald Reagan
Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. – Mario Cuomo
Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. – H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. – Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. – Marquis de Flers Robert
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. – E. B. White
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. – H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! – Benjamin Franklin, 1759
Democracy is, first and foremost, a spiritual force, it is built upon a spiritual basis - and on a belief in God and an observance of moral principle. And in the long run only the church can provide that basis. Our founder knew this truth - and we will neglect it at our peril. – President Harry Truman, Public Papers of the President of the United States: Harry S. Truman - 1951 U.S. Gov. 1966 p1063
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. – Clement Atlee
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.' – Theodore Parker
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. – Oscar Wilde
Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. – Johnny Carson
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard
Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. – Samuel Adams
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy works. Against us. – Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election.
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. – H. L. Mencken
Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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