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Quotations by Subject: Democracy (24 quotes)

Results from Cole's Quotables:

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.: Laurence Peter
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.: Art Spander
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.: Orson Welles (1915 - 1985), The Third Man, 1949
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.: Roger Baldwin, founder ACLU
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.: Robert Maynard Hutchins

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.: Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.: John Simon
What you have when everyone wears the same playclothes for all occasions, is addressad by nickname, expected to participate in Show And Tell, and bullied out of any desire form privacy, is not democracy; it is kindergarten.: Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.: Clement Richard Atlee, British prime minister (1945-1951)

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