Democracy Quote by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator…

— Reid Hoffman

All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon…

— George Lucas

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

America does not stand with dictators, and we never will and we shall never.

— Ruben Gallego

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America,…

— Benjamin Spock

Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.

— Gerard K. O'Neill

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

— Max Boot

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

— Jamie Dimon

Everyone has the opportunity to dictate their own way of life, but not everyone can maintain the power of a dictator.

— Djc