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| Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. | | Robert Byrne | |
| Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in | | Ronald Reagan | |
| Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin. | | Gore Vidal | |
| Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people | | Abraham Lincoln | |
| Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy. | | Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time | | E. B. White | |
| Democracy is the road to socialism. | | Karl Marx | |
| Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. | | Aristotle | |
| Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero | | Thomas Carlyle | |
| Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. | | Gilbert K. Chesterton | |
| Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. | | Oscar Wilde | |
| Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave | | Karl Kraus | |
| Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
| Democracy passes into despotism. | | Plato | |
| Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. | | George Bernard Shaw | |
