Quotes on Democracy
In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a "people's democracy." It's the same as the difference between a jacket and a straitjacket.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
It has been pointed out that the days of democracy are numbered once the belly takes command of the head. When the less affluent feel the urge to break a commandment and begin to covet that which their more affluent neighbors possess, they are tempted to use their votes to obtain instant satisfaction. Then equal opportunity at the starting line becomes an extended guarantee of at least a tie at the finish of the race. Under the euphamism "the greatest good for the greatest number," we destroy a system which has accomplished just that and move toward the managed economy which strangles freedom and mortgages generations yet to come.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken
The ability for self-government is arrived at only through an extensive training and education.
Calvin Coolidge
The real danger of democracy is that the classes which have power under it will assume all the rights and reject all the duties - that is, that they will use the political power to plunder those who have.
William Graham Sumner
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.
Alexander Fraser Tyler
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