Democracy Is Based Quotes
- Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. — Robert A. Heinlein
- History provides many examples of democracy crushed by people who said to be the champion of "genuine democracy" and "the people's real meaning". The realization… — Olof Palme
- Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied… — Nelson Mandela
- If it be true that democracy is based upon the assumption that every man shall serve his fellow man, the organization of democracy should be… — Herbert Croly
- Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with reason… — Harry S. Truman
- Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
- Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would… — Henry Louis Mencken
- If democracy is based on the people why force it [on Iraq] — Loesje