Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth—unless we except the case of the "prairie dogs,"…

— Edgar Allan Poe

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which is great…

— John Adams

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

— Aristotle

A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Without God, there would be no American form of Government, nor an American way of life.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence…

— Will Durant

We are fighting to save a great and precious form of government for ourselves and for the world.

— Franklin D Roosevelt

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The…

— Aristotle

A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it's a stinking way to create.

— Lillian Hellman

I and others of my sex find ourselves controlled by a form of government in the inauguration of which we had no voice.

— Victoria Woodhull

Any nations right to a form of government and economic system of its own choosing is inalienable. Any nations attempt to dictate to other…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and…

— Robert Briffault