True masters of democracy extend their embrace beyond the mere electorate to those who cannot vote: kids, endangered species, and people in Florida.
Democracy Quotes
Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.
It remains impossible… to separate the democratic idea from the theory that there is a mysterious merit, an esoteric and ineradicable rectitude, in the man at the bottom of the scale – that inferiority, by some strange magic, becomes a kind of superiority.
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
Democracy demands that all of its citizens begin the race even. Egalitarianism insists that they all finish even.
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.
He who attacks the fundamentals of the American broadcasting industry attacks democracy itself.
I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy. But that could change.
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. This is like saying that the cure for crime is more crime.
Democracy means not “I am as good as you are” but “You are as good as I am.”
