- Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule; and unless the majority represents sane, righteous, unselfish public sentiment, it has no inherent right.
― William Allen White - Democracy is like a raft: It won’t sink, but you will always have your feet wet.
― Russell B. Long - Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
― H.L. Mencken - Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.
― Sydney J. Harris - Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
― Anonymous - Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
― Clement Attlee - Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
― George Bernard Shaw - Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
― Benjamin Lichtenberg - Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
― John Kenneth Galbraith - Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
― P.J. O’Rourke - Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
― Werner Finck - Fear is the foundation of most governments.
― John Adams - Fire, water, and government know nothing of mercy.
― Proverb - For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
― Jonathan Swift - Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
― P.J. O’Rourke - Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
― Fred Woodworth - Governments should not possess instruments of coercion and violence denied to their citizens.
― Edgar A. Suter - Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority.
― Lord Acton - Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
― W.C Fields - Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.
― William Ewart Gladstone
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