Democracy Quote by James Russell Lowell

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical… It reduces wisdom to impotence and…

— Robert Briffault

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

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 the form of government in which the free are rulers.

— Aristotle

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the…

— Karl Marx

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

— Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

— John Allen Fraser

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

— Doug Larson

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

“Increasing numbers of Americans are subscribing to the myth that you can get something for nothing—as long as the government is footing the bill.…

— Ezra Taft Benson

The important thing is that government gives the security services the tools that are necessary to keep us safe.

— Amber Rudd