Ambitious Quote by Fisher Ames

“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

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

— John Simon

When people in a democracy are not educated in the art of living -- to strengthen their conscience, compassion, and ability to question and…

— Paul K. Chappell

“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s…

— Gavin Nascimento

The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

— Isaac Asimov

“[Democracy] is as without plans as it is without energy, as incapable of harm as it is incapable of good. It is powerless and…

— Peter Carey

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

— Karl Kraus

Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains…

— Chiang Kai-shek

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

— Anonymous

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle