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Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management. »Senator Soaper

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. »Laurence J. Peter

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. »Robert Byrne

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. »Jawaharlal Nehru

Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating. »Ronald Reagan

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair. »Mario Cuomo

Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. »H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. »Oscar Wilde

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. »Marquis de Flers Robert

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. »E. B. White

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. »H.L. Mencken

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. »H. L. Mencken

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote! »Benjamin Franklin, 1759

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 means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. »Clement Atlee

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. »Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.' »Theodore Parker

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. »Oscar Wilde

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president. »Johnny Carson

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. »James Bovard

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide. »Samuel Adams

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. »George Bernard Shaw

Democracy works. Against us. »Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election.

Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. »George Bernard Shaw

Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses. »H. L. Mencken

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness. »Marcus Tullius Cicero

Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down. »Laertius Diogenes

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. »Mark Twain

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance. »The Laws of Manu

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. »Publilius Syrus