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- Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require.
- Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar
- Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971)
- The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- 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
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