Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible.
—Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de Caillavet
More quotations tagged with “democracy”
The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself… The act of voting is in itself the defining moment.
—Laurence J. Peter
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
—Harry Emerson Fosdick
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy!
—H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
—George Bernard Shaw
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
—George Bernard Shaw
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