The best argument against democracy
is a five-minute conversation
with the average voter
- Winston Churchill
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Democracy does not guarantee equality
of conditions -- it only guarantees
equality of opportunity
- Irving Kristol
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose
the man who will get the blame
- Laurence Peter
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A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election
- Bill Vaughan
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Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them
- Arman de Caillavet
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment
- Robert Hutchins
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve
- George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for the appointment by the corrupt few
- George Bernard Shaw
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On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does
- Will Rogers
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president
- Johnny Carson
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