Democracy Quotes - Page 17

• Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, War, Party

  Minority Report : H.L. Mencken's Notebooks (222), 1956.

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• Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Class, Giving

  Orthodoxy ch. 4 (1908)

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• Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political — legislative and administrative — decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Decision, Political, Arriving

  "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy".

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• For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.

  Olof Palme

  Political, Dignity, Palms

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• Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

  Benito Mussolini

  Beautiful, Democracies Have, Practice

  to Edwin L James of the New York Times, 1928.

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• A man is judged by the company he keeps, and a company is judged by the men it keeps, and the people of Democratic nations are judged by the type and caliber of officers they elect.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Men, People, He Man

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• Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

  Robert A. Dahl

  Chance, Depends, Bits

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• Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Country, Running

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As long as we're in a democracy, I have to give what I think the majority of people will enjoy.

  Norman Granz

  Thinking, Long, People

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• Every man cannot have his way in all things. If his opinion prevails at some times, he should acquiesce on seeing that of others preponderate at other times. Without this mutual disposition we are disjointed individuals, but not a society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Way, Opinion

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. IX (in 12 Volumes)”, p.281, Cosimo, Inc.

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• While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  War, Organization, Drug

  Statement, May 1908.

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• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Assumption, Wiser

  Time Enough for Love "Intermission" (1973)

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• The only title in our democracy superior to that of President is the title of citizen.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  President, Titles, Citizens

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• I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, Freedom, Democracies Have

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• In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential to survival.

  Noam Chomsky

  Freedom, Hero, Democracies Have

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• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

  Gore Vidal

  Issues, Political, Historical

  FaceBook post by Gore Vidal from May 03, 2011

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• Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

  Karl Kraus

  Mean, Opportunity, Slave

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• Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

  Bob Dylan

  War, Ruling The World, Violence

  Song: Union Sundown, Album: Infidels, 1983

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• Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.

  Dennis Chavez

  Failing

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• Education either functions as an instrument which is used to facilitate integration of the younger generation into the logic of the present system and bring about conformity or it becomes the practice of freedom, the means by which men and women deal critically and creatively with reality and discover how to participate in the transformation of their world.

  Paulo Freire

  Educational, Learning, Creativity

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

  John Dryden

  Men, Rights, Self

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• You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Democracies Have, Order

  "Tremendous Trifles" by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Ch. 12, (p. 63), 1955.

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• That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Kings, Cynical, Doe

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1976). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• A fool and his money are soon elected.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Money

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• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Democracies Have, People

  A Little Book in C Major ch. 2 (1916)

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