Democracy
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy, Government, Politics
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Democracy is more important what it prevents than for what it provides.
Democracy, Governance, Politics
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Democracy is like a bus – get off whenever it has taken you to your desired destination.
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The health of democracy can be measured in its capacity to host civil public disagreement.
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Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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Under democracy, one party always devotes its energy in trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed and are right.
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A triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anybody else.
[on John F. Kennedy’s electoral victory]
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Never mind football. Try democracy.
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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We must have the courage to be intolerant of those who take advantage of democracy in order to destroy it.
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The basis of democracy is the willingness to assume well about other people.
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Democracy is the form of society devised and maintained by people who don’t know that they don’t know everything.
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Democracy is the process by which people choose who is to blame.
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Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people.
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Be nice to America or we will bring you democracy.
