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| Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders | | Henry Louis Mencken | |
| Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
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| I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom. | | Winston Churchill | |
| I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both | | Thomas Babington Macaulay | |
| I never said all Democrats were saloonkeepers. What I said was that all saloonkeepers are Democrats. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost. | | Aristotle | |
| In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme. | | Aristotle | |
| In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility | | Norman Cousins | |
| In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority | | Edmund Burke | |
| It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. | | Winston Churchill | |
| Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for | | Adlai E. Stevenson | |
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| The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. | | Winston Churchill | |
| The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness | | Niels Bohr | |
| The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. | | P. J. O'Rourke | |
| The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy. | | Woodrow T. Wilson | |
| The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. | | Art Spander | |
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