Admirable Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

— Edgar Allan Poe

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

— Charles De Montesquieu

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property…

— George Washington

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo… It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

— Walt Whitman