America Quote by Martin Amis

The real beauty of democracy is that the average man believes he is above average.

— Morrie Brickman

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

— John Winthrop

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The beauty of democracy is that an average, random, unremarkable citizen can lead it.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy, though slowly attained and never by revolutionary jumps, is the best government on earth when it tries to make all its citizens aristocrats.…

— Peter Viereck

Democracy can't work. Mathematicians, peasants, and animals, that's all there is - so democracy, a theory based on the assumption that mathematicians and peasants…

— Anonymous

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

— Max Boot

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill

One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better…

— Sidney Hook