70 Quotes About Democracies-have

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

American democracy has been hacked.

There's no doubt that in the last two to three decades, American democracy has been hacked. It was based on the regular harvesting of the wisdom of crowds, but now big sources of special interest money are able to prevent the passage of almost any meaningful reform that's aimed at the public interest.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

To declare the Cold War over, and declare democracy has won out over totalitarianism, is a measure of arrogance and wrong-headedness.

It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity.

Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised