This election is a total sham and a travesty. We are not a democracy!
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.
[P]ower in a democracy is held by those who manage public opinion.
Crime and Corruption,and acts thereof, have become a real threat to the future of our democracy
The idea of democracy is not a bad one but it’s just not practiced the way it ought to be
This government has failed the Negro. This so-called democracy has failed the Negro.
American Democracy: If you've never gotten a death threat, you're not doing it right.
[Tommy Robinson is] entitled to speak at rallies organised by people who believe in democracy