Class Quote by Aristotle

Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling…

— Aristotle

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich…

— Aristotle

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

— Aristotle

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the…

— Aristotle

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of…

— Mark Twain

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

— Winston Churchill

A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged…

— Robert Reich