Democracy Quote by Johnny Carson

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,…

— Sam Levenson

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It…

— Brian Eno

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

— Aristotle

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.

— Aristotle

Democracy means decision by those concerned.

— Carl Friedrich von Weizsacker

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken