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- Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- A country which proposes to make use of modern war as an instrument of policy must possess a highly centralized, all-powerful executive, hence the absurdity of talking about the defense of democracy by force of arms. A democracy which makes or effectively prepares for modern scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic.
- Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963)
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
- Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
- It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- An honest election, under democracy, is an act of innocence which does not take place more than once in the history of a given nation.
- Jose Marie Gil Robles, speech in Madrid, 1933
- Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky
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