Asking Quote by Sydney J. Harris

“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

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

— Walt Whitman

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

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

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

— Anthony Scaramucci

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

— Doug Larson

Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

— Woodrow Wilson

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

— Anonymous