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Results of search for Quote or Author: democracy - Page 1 of 10
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Results from Michael Moncur's (Cynical) Quotations:

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
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Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.
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Dan Quayle (1947 - ), 5/22/89
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.
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Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"
In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.
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Mogens Jallberg
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
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Bill Vaughan
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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E. B. White (1899 - 1985), New Yorker, July 3, 1944
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