2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Democracy is a poor system; the only thing that can be said for it is that it's eight times as good as any other method.

Politics is sports for people who think they are smart and more serious about life.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

When a stupid government is elected in a democratic country, the best thing about this is that you learn the number of stupid people in that country!

In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.

In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Earlier in [2007] the [Prime Minister's Office] had also drawn criticism for trying to muzzle the judiciary. The reproach came from Antonio Lamer, the former chief justice of the Supreme Court....'I must say I was taken aback,' said Lamer, who sat on the Supreme Court for twenty years. 'The prime minister is going the wrong route as regards the independence of the judiciary. He's trying to interfere with the sentencing process.

[W]hat is this law of the greatest number which modern governments invoke and in which they claim to find their sole justification? It is simply the law of matter and brute force, the same law by which a mass, carried down by its weight, crushes everything that lies in its track. It is precisely here that we find the point of junction of the democratic conception and materialism...