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Quotes By subject - Starting with D - Democracy

There are 47 quotes for the subject Democracy

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Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Author: Plato

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Author: Plato

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Author: Aristotle

Democracy passes into despotism.
Author: Plato

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Author: Bertrand Russell

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Author: Winston Churchill

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

...Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.
Author: Albert Einstein

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.
Author: Plato

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Author: Abraham Lincoln

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.
Author: Mark Twain

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.
Author: Albert Einstein

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Author: Winston Churchill

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Author: George Bernard Shaw

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
Author: Aristotle

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
Author: John F. Kennedy

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Author: Walt Whitman

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