Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than
half of the people are right more than half of the time. -E.B. White
Democracy is the worst system ever invented -
except for all the rest. -Winston Churchill
An elected official is one who gets 51 percent of the vote cast by 40
percent of the 60 percent of voters who registered. -Dan Bennett
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do
not vote. -George Jean Nathan
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -George
Bernard Shaw
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." --Benjamin Franklin
Common sense is not so common. -Francois Marie De Voltaire
The great masses of the people...will more easily fall
victims to a big lie than to a small one. -Adolf Hitler in "Mein Kampf"
The devil hath power to assume a pleasing
shape. -William Shakespeare
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony
of it is that if it is comfort and money that it values more, it will lose that, too. -W. Somerset Maugham
The death
of democracy is not likely to be an assassination by ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference and undernourishment.
-Robert Maynard Hutchins
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the
good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without
end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. - C.S. Lewis
It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority
keen to set brush fires in people's minds." -Samuel
Adams
