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.
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire...
Political democracy can remain if it confines itself to all but economic matters.
The town hall has the spirit of representative democracy, the rally of autocracy.
The possibility of democracy on a global scale is emerging today for the very first time.
The struggle against plutocracy and the striving for peace and democracy are forever reborn.
We are here to announce class warfare, in peace and for democracy.
It's our duty to honor the dead by bringing democracy to this country.
In youth one believes in democracy, later on, one has to accept it.
Democracy and self-determination serve the overall goal of enabling human security and human rights.
What we do know is that if we do not leave the EU it will mark the end of democracy in the UK.