Democracy Quote by Gordy Slack

“The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.”

— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“The most dangerous enemy of truth and freedom among us is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority...”

— Thomas Stockman

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“A democracy of mean and ignorant people is just as scary as any other horrible form of government.”

— Bryant McGill

“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

— Winston Churchill

“The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no”

— Colum McCann

“The world will never be safe for democracy—it is a dangerous trade”

— G. K. Chesterton

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.”

— Rodney Stark

“I’ve always believed that it’s possible to discern true statements from false statements, and that it’s critically important to do so, and that we…

— Al Franken

“But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself…

— D.H. Lawrence

“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville