Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-08-31 Aug 31, 2016Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.~ Oscar WildePeople 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 Aug 30, 2016Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.~ Benjamin FranklinThe evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality.~ Guido De RuggieroDemocracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.~ James Russell Lowell Aug 29, 2016Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.~ George Bernard ShawThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.~ James Fenimore CooperDemocracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.~ Jan C. Smuts Aug 26, 2016A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.~ AristotleLiberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.~ Fisher AmesDemocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.~ James Madison Aug 25, 2016Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenInstitutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.~ Thomas Jefferson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print