Democracy is the most vile form of government.

The problem to be solved is, not what form of government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect.

— James Madison

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

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

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

— Julian Barnes

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

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

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

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