If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
Democracy Quotes
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what […]
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
She (Margaret Thatcher) is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.
A conquest made by a democracy is always odious to the subject states. It becomes thereby monarchical by a fiction, but it is always more oppressive than a monarchy, as the experience of all times and ages shows.
Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.
There is nothing mysterious about the foundations of a healthy and strong democracy… They are: equality of opportunity for youth and for others, jobs for those who can work, security for those who need it, the ending of special privilege for the few, the preservation of civil liberties for all, the enjoyment of the fruits […]
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
