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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

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government. — John Winthrop

It's hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation to prevent the government from writing and paying for the news. — John F. Kerry

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations. — Henry Rollins

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

We can transform the government and the economy, as well as democracy, in Malaysia. — Najib Razak

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

A government by the passions of the multitude, or, no less correctly, according to the vices, and ambitions of their leaders is a democracy. — Fisher Ames

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

A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike! — Plato

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 only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. — Dean Inge

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association. — John Dewey

Democracy ... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike. — Plato

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

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy. — Lord Acton

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

Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on. — George Soros

It is past time for the U.S. government to fully fulfill our moral obligation to those who have fought for freedom and democracy. — Tim Ryan

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact. — Lyndon B. Johnson