Democracy Quote by Zephyr Teachout

History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually…

— Zephyr Teachout

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

— Ibrahim Babangida

Look rather at the teachings of history, true history, not the history written by Party hacks: genuine democracy, the only valid democracy, is nourished…

— Wei Jingsheng

History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

— Jean Bodin

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

— Anne Applebaum

History is just new people making old mistakes.

— Sigmund Freud

The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling…

— Ibrahim Babangida

The good news, to relieve all this gloom, is that a democracy is inherently self-correcting. Here, the people are sovereign. Inept political leaders can…

— Theodore C. Sorensen

In historical fact, all of history's despots, combined, never managed to get things done as well as this rambunctious, self-critical civilization of free and…

— David Brin

If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over.

— Isaac Asimov

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very…

— Mark Twain