Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-11-02 Oct 31, 2008Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham LincolnDemocracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 30, 2008Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard ShawThe principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.~ Lysander SpoonerA people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ William O. Douglas Oct 29, 2008All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.~ Alexander HamiltonDemocracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos].~ U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.~ Walter H. Judd Oct 28, 2008Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.~ Paul ValéryFreedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.~ Alan Dean FosterWhen it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Oct 27, 2008Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenDemocracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.~ James BovardFreedom for supporters of the government only, for members of one party only -- no matter how big its membership may be -- is no freedom at all. Freedom is always freedom for the man who thinks differently.~ Rosa Luxemburg Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print