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  • The road to democracy may be winding and is like a river taking many curves, but eventually the river will reach the ocean.

    Ocean   Curves   Rivers  
    BBC Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. March 30, 2004.
  • Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at Marietta, Ohio, July 8, 1938.
  • Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

    Freedom   Humorous   Men  
  • I think it is absolutely essential in a democracy to have competition in the media, a lot of competition, and we seem to be moving away from that.

    Moving   Thinking   Media  
    "The Nation: Walter Cronkite America's Anchorman". www.npr.org. July 20, 2009.
  • Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.

    Trust   Taken   Escaping  
  • In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

  • A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

    1963 The Presidential Papers, preface.
  • Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

  • Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

    The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944)
  • Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

    "On Propaganda". WBAI Interview, chomsky.info. January 1992.
  • The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.

    Grace Abbott (1968). “The Child and the State: Legal status in the family. Apprenticeship and child labor”
  • Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

    James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin
  • The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

    John Emerich Edward Dalberg, Lord Acton (2016). “The History of Freedom (and other Essays)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag
  • As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

    Wisdom   Freedom   Humor  
    "Definition of Democracy," ca. 1 Aug. 1858
  • Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

    New York Times 1 Feb. 1931, pt. 5, p. 1
  • Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

    Speech at Oxford, 14 June 1957, in The Times 15 June 1957
  • Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

    New Yorker, 3 July 1943
  • Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing.

    Archibald MacLeish (1941). “The American cause”
  • A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

  • It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

    Jumpers act 1 (1972) See Nast 1; Somoza 1
  • Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

    Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.538, Best Books on
  • Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

    "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".
  • Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

    "Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy". Book by Michael Soussan, November 4, 2008.
  • On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

    Funny   Heart   Land  
    The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 1920.
  • So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

    Two Cheers for Democracy "What I Believe" (1951)
  • Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

    Freedom   War   Party  
    Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.
  • Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

    'The Soul of Man under Socialism'
  • Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

    "A Cult of Ignorance". Newsweek, January 21, 1980.
  • Democracy is necessary to peace and to undermining the forces of terrorism.

    Interview With Zahid Hussain, newslinemagazine.com. July 2002.
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