 | "Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear."
- Alan Corenk
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| "If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
- Aristotle
, Politics. |
| "The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
- Art Spander
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| "Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking."
- Clement Atlee
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| "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."
- E. B. White
, New Yorker, July 3, 1944. |
| "Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| "Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
- George Bernard Shaw
, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists". |
| "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
- H. L. Mencken
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| "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right."
- H. L. Mencken
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| "Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame."
- Laurence J. Peter
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