[Aeternitas]

Agnes Repplier:

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

Dorothy Thompson:

It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives.

George Bernard Shaw:

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

H. L. Mencken:

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

John Simon:

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

Laurence J. Peter:

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Mohandas K. Gandhi:

The spirit of democracy cannot be imposed from without. It has to come from within.

Noam Chomsky:

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations


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http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_democracy.html
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http://www.hillwatch.com/PPRC/Quotes/Democracy.aspx
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/D...y/1/index.html