Democracy Quote by H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a series of choices.

— Paul Ryan

The dream of democracy has long been enshrined in the hearts of the Egyptian people. It only needed awakening.

— Mohamed ElBaradei

When we define democracy now it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

— Pearl S. Buck

“Your dream is not a democracy, listen to your heart not the masses.”

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

— 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

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

— Dick Gregory

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

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

— Bernard R. Crick

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

In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than just ideals to be valued - they may be essential…

— Noam Chomsky