Age Quote by John Quincy Adams

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

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

— Thomas Mann

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for…

— Jimmy Carter

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse…

— Alexander Fraser Tytler

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

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

“Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.”

— Winston Churchill

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,…

— James Madison