Country Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

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 a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to…

— Atifete Jahjaga

“As Dio observed later, democracy sounded very well and good, “but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy,…

— Stacy Schiff

Democracy depends on the legitimacy of the process for winning and exchanging power. Once lost, that legitimacy is difficult to recover.

— Jamelle Bouie

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang

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

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,…

— Fran Lebowitz

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or…

— Anonymous

The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.

— Warren Buffett

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small…

— James Madison