~ Democracy Quotes ~

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[highlight-text]Democracy is a small hard core of common agreement surrounded by a rich variety of individual differences.

James Bryant Conant

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[highlight-text]It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill

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[highlight-text]Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

E. B. White

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[highlight-text]The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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[highlight-text]Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

Johnny Carson

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[highlight-text]A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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[highlight-text]There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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[highlight-text]A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable generous tolerant and respectful.

Charles W. Pickering

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If you want to understand democracy spend less time in the library with Plato and more time in the buses with people.

Simeon Strunsky

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[highlight-text]Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

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[highlight-text]In a democracy the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional but must be maintained because it is indispensable.

Walter Lippmann

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[highlight-text]The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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[highlight-text]It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

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[highlight-text]The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

Bernard M. Baruch

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[highlight-text]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.

Henry Mencken