Quotes on Voting And Democracy

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.

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

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

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

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.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

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.

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.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state...

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.