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- 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
- Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
- Excerpt from the notebooks of Lazarus Long, from Robert Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love"
- 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: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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