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I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.
— Karl Popper
Margaret Thatcher's government redistributed money from rich to poor. And that's the nature of a modern western democracy.
— George Osborne
The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived.
— John Quincy Adams
The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.
— Woody Harrelson
The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
— C.L.R. James
In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.
— Michael Bloomberg
American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.
— James Bovard
In a democracy, the public has a right to know not only what the government decides, but why and by what process.
— Gerald R. Ford
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.
— Robert W. Welch Jr.
The crowd-pleasing, pilfered genre had mated with democracy and produced a seemingly invincible bastard: government by force of farce.
— David James Duncan
In our democracy we must have a partnership of labor, of business and of government.
— Charles H. Percy
Democracy needs support, and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies.
— Benazir Bhutto
The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all.
— Nelson Mandela
The soviet people want full-blooded and unconditional democracy.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
— Aristotle.
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
— Penn Jillette
A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.
— Bryant McGill
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
— James Madison
In our democracy officers of the government are the servants, and never the masters of the people.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democracy, the practice of self-government, is a covenant among free men to respect the rights and liberties of their fellows.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy.
— Ronald Reagan
Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.
— Felix Rohatyn
The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
— James Bovard
Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.
— John Dewey
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the individual.
— George C. Marshall
We are in this business, whether it be intelligence or the government, to protect freedom, democracy and liberty, not to violate that.
— John O. Brennan
Democracy virtually assures that only bad and dangerous men will ever rise to the top of government.
— Hans-Hermann Hoppe
A mercantile democracy may govern long and widely; a mercantile aristocracy cannot stand.
— Walter Savage Landor
In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
— Matt Taibbi
No government demands so much from the citizens as democracy and none gives back so much.
— James Bryce
Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".
— Abraham Lincoln
