Balance Quote by Daniel Patrick Moynihan

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

— Edmund Burke

We're not perfect, but we do have democracy.

— Hugo Chavez

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever…

— H. L. Mencken

No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them,…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

Democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a free society. History has told many stories of democratic societies that have degenerated into corruption,…

— Richard Ebeling

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and…

— Barack Obama

Democracy is not perfect.

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

Democracy is necessitated by the fact that all men are sinners; it is made possible by the fact that we know it. ...

— D. Elton Trueblood

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is…

— Winston Churchill

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani