Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the…

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

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

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 not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

— John Allen Fraser