Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces.
Democracy Quotes
A democracy that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people.
We are a nation that has a government – not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth.
If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x X y is less than y.
Democracy equals inflation.
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people’s democracy. It’s the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Your true savage, reserved, dignified, and courteous, knows how to mask his feelings, even in the face of the most desperate assault upon them; your civilized man is forever yielding to them. Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes.
We’ve never been in a democracy; we’ve always been in a phallocracy!
Although we the people have delegated limited responsibilities to those who hold public office in the interest of all of us, we, nevertheless, retain ultimate responsibility. We cannot delegate it; it belongs to us. We may fulfill it well or poorly, but still we have it.
A threat to deprive the governed of their jobs or means of livelihood, by a group which has the power to do so, would undermine a democracy.
