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 More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. —Harry Emerson Fosdick More about this quote Tags: democracy possibility ordinary people Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy! —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. —E. B. White More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 the government to the utmost. —Art Spander More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear. —Aristotle More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul —Alan Corenk More about this quote Tags: democracy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better. —Wendell Phillips More about this quote Tags: defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. —Theodore Roosevelt More about this quote Tags: defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. —Sun-tzu More about this quote Tags: defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means. —Sallust More about this quote Tags: defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats. —Ralph W. Sockman More about this quote Tags: defeat Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email