Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy…

“Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“the United States government was at the mercy of special-interest groups, lobbies like the National Rifle Association and the American Medical Association, the automobile…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability.

— Edward Greenspon

The skeptical relativist attempt to mandate a naked public square is undemocratic. It is also a danger to democracy.

— Henry Hyde

Through an unwieldy combination of big government, big military, big business, big labor and big cities, we have created an unworkable mega-nation which defies…

— Thomas Naylor

“It's almost hard to imagine anything more undemocratic than the view that political officials should not debate American wars in public, but only express…

— Glenn Greenwald

For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views…

— Rudyard Kipling

“Very little truthfulness anywhere, antagonism everywhere, so much calculated to disgust, the gigantic hypocrisies, no holding fierce passions at bay, the ordinary viciousness you…

— Philip Roth

To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense it is…

— Paul Goodman

This traditionally happens in Russia and in every other undemocratic country as well - the quest for a scapegoat won't be long, either. The…

— Garry Kasparov

I'm afraid to apply for a visa to the U.S.A. because it's against terrorism in a very undemocratic way.

— Mohamedou Ould Slahi

The idea that the GLC should be abolished at a stroke is ill though out, undemocratic and will cost the people of London dear.

— Ken Livingstone

It is entirely undemocratic to continue these burdens on the people for years and years after the requirements of protection have been met and…

— John Griffin Carlisle

“You see my point? The average person has a very average notion of goodness to which they aspire averagely. To aspire to goodness in…

— Geoffrey Wood

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones