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

About Will Rogers

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William Penn Adair Rogers (November 4, 1879 – August 15, 1935) was a Cherokee-American vaudeville performer, actor, and humorist. He was born as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, in the Indian Territory, now part of Oklahoma, and is known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son". As an entertainer and humorist, he...

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This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Communism is like prohibition, it's a good idea but it won't work.

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.

For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.

There ought to be one day—just one—when there is open season on senators.

More quotations tagged with “democracy”

A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible.

—Tom Stoppard

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

—Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

—Mogens Jallberg

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

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

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11 Jul 2015 Added