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 essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.
Every single one of you, whether you like it or not, is a bastion of democracy.
The way you can tell there’s democracy going on is that nothing gets done.
"In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people."