Democracy Quote by Emile M. Cioran

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

— Agnes Repplier

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them

— Anonymous

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

— H. L. Mencken

“Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.”

— Bernard R. Crick

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a…

— Benito Mussolini

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

— Anonymous

Democracy is the healthful lifeblood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

“This is the Apocalypse, not a democracy,”

— Sean Platt

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

A nation without heroes is nothing.

— Roberto Clemente