Quotes on Democracies Have

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

The leading student of business propaganda, Australian social scientist Alex Carey, argues persuasively that “the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury.

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.