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