Democracy Quotes
Barack Obama and the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu have the most entries, with H. L. Mencken and Franklin Roosevelt behind them, so a lot of the page is speeches. For the dry material go to Mencken in Smart Set (1910), who called democracy the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard; Shaw’s Maxims for Revolutionists (1903), on election by the incompetent many instead of appointment by the corrupt few; and Disraeli’s Lothair (1870).
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch” is credited to Benjamin Franklin and flagged misattributed. The earliest version in the notes is a Usenet post from 23 April 1990. The line that democracy is the most vile form of government, credited to Madison, is flagged too.
The Soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
It is probable that democracy owes more to Nonconformity than to any other single movement.
Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.
In Ukraine, you don't build a democracy; it already exists. You just defend it.
Jesus, not Cæsar, I repeat,—this is the meaning of our history and democracy.
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
We have to make sure that Ukraine prevails as a sovereign, independent, democratic nation.
Democracy should be as much a system of participation as a method of representation.