Democracy Quote by Joseph Befumo

“Americans have always thought they had a democracy form of government. We don’t. We have a constitutional republic – a representative form of government.”

— David R. Johnson

“The United States of America, as defined in The Constitution thereof, is not a democracy, nor was it ever envisioned as such or intended…

— Joseph Befumo

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the…

— Clarence Manion

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

— Abraham Lincoln

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

— Plato

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an…

— B. R. Ambedkar

“summary, I personally think that, as I said in The Blue Book of The John Birch Society, democracy is a weapon of demagoguery and…

— Robert Welch

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

— John Allen Fraser

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

— Winston Churchill