Democracy Quote by Alain de Botton

“We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

“That of all the 'oracies (aristocracy and democracy included) hypocrisy is the most flourishing.”

— James Fenimore Cooper

“. . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class.”

— Eugene V. Debs

Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right…

— Joseph Pulitzer

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political, and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot-box, the Legislatures,…

— Ignatius Donnelly

“Our founding fathers placed so much emphasis on nurturing a well-educated populace because they knew that our system of democracy could not long survive…

— Ben Carson

“Probably no country was ever ruled by so mean a class of tyrants as, with a few noble exceptions, are the editors of the…

— Henry David Thoreau

“It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or…

— Eugène Ionesco

“A real democracy would be a meritocracy where those born in the lower ranks could rise as far as their natural talents and discipline…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Leaders are often forced to make determinations they find distasteful for the good of the people they serve.”

— Joelle Charbonneau