Class Quote by Irving Fisher

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

If the strong exploit the weak, democracy will not be stable.

— Condoleezza Rice

Without the persistence of voters in America getting up to every election, democracy will not flourish.

— David Hogg

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is…

— Alexander Hamilton

We have an underdeveloped democracy and overdeveloped plutocracy.

— Ralph Nader

Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity. Democracy will rise superior to the money power.

— Abraham Lincoln

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

— Madeleine Albright

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum

We have had raucous moments in our history. And I think we're in one now. But it's not going to endanger the future of…

— Victor Davis Hanson

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

The perspective that many today are beginning to see as fully realistic is that democracy in our country, and in our part of the…

— Torbjorn Tannsjo