Citizens Quote by James Madison

A republic and a democracy are pretty much identical, pretty much on every level.

— Rick Santelli

There's a big difference in a representative republic and a democracy. We do not have a democracy in America.

— Rush Limbaugh

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you…

— Charles Bukowski

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is…

— Saul Alinsky

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

We have a constitutional republic, not a democracy.

— Ted Yoho

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

— John Dewey

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,…

— Fran Lebowitz

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

— John Marshall