Quotes About Democracy

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

An Honest politician will not be tolerated by a democracy unless he is very stupid ... because only a very stupid man can honestly share the prejudices of more than half the nation.

The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

The natural cure for an ill-administration, in a popular or representative constitution, is a change of men.

Whether ours shall be a government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Democracy, the deceitful theory that the Jew would insinuate - namely, that theory that all men are created equal.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.

The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.

Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves.

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.

The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their consent.

Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.

Democracy is all about not electing the wrong man-eating lizard.

The fate of America cannot depend on any one man. The greatness of America is grounded in principles and not on any single personality.

We always want the best man to win an election. Unfortunately, he never runs.

Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.