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.
Chinks in America's EGALITARIAN armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Activism begins with you, Democracy begins with you, get out there, get active! Tag, you're it.
Under democracy individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded.
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.
Art is not a democracy. People don't get to vote on how it ends.
Democracy means the belief that humanistic culture should prevail.
Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy.