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.
Democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and anarchy.
To liberate the energies of the people for the growth of a property owning democracy in this land.
The essence of democracy is that the people should have a voice and their views should be respected.
"At the moment, there is no democracy, no good leadership in this country."
Democracy cannot survive where citizens are excluded from knowledge.
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.
There can be no political prisoners in a democracy, nor detention without trial in a state of law.
In this instance the interests of the revolutionary Democracy and of England go hand in hand.