Quotes:
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy (speech in Albany, 27 June 1933)
View quotes by Alfred Emanuel Smith
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
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A democracy in the Middle East must be more than a democracy in name only - it must live out its principles.
View quotes by Kay Granger
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
View quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr
Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. [True, which is why we never have in practice anything like true democracy]
View quotes by Meg Greenfield
The first reference I can find to this quotation seems to be in 'The St Catharines Standard' (St Cathariens, Ontario, Canada (Osprey Press)) Ocober 13, 2000.
A Canadian politician William Peter Randall was lamenting on the lack of election races and apparent public lack of interest.
He said, 'Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy'.
You can find more about him in Wikipedia etc.
I have seen the quotation used a few times since then and belive it may be a good addition to your database.
John
Acclamation is not democracy, it is apathy.
-Willam Peter Randall
Canadian Politician, Quotiation circa 2000
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I like the noise of democracy.
View quotes by James Buchanan
After each war there is a little less democracy to save (Once Around the Sun)
View quotes by Brooks Atkinson
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
View quotes by Claude Pepper
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor
View quotes by James Russell Lowell
It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
View quotes by Tom Stoppard
The love of democracy is that of equality.
View quotes by Charles Montesquieu
Democracy is the road to socialism.
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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."
View quotes by Nigel Rees
Television is Democracy at it's ugliest.
View quotes by Paddy Chayefsky
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
View quotes by Jawaharlal Nehru
Either we are all free, or we fail; democracy must belong to all of us.
View quotes by Dennis Chavez
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
View quotes by Karl Kraus
I sow; my successor reaps. This is the majesty of democracy.
View quotes by Gloria Macapagal Arroyo