As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy – Abraham Lincoln.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme – Aristotle.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have – E. B. White.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time – E. B. White.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve – George Bernard Shaw.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven – H. L. Mencken.

A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar – H. L. Mencken.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity – Irving Kristol.

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant – John Simon.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith – J. William Fulbright.

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame – Laurence J. Peter.

Decision by democratic majority vote is a fine form of government, but it’s a stinking way to create – Lillian Hellman.

In true democracy every man and women is taught to think for himself or herself – Mahatma Gandhi.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular – Mahatma Gandhi.

Citizenship is what makes a republic — monarchies can get along without it – Mark Twain.

Everybody’s for democracy in principle. It’s only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections – Meg Greenfield.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people – Oscar Wilde.

An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics – Plato.

Democracy, as has been said of Christianity, has never really been tried – Stuart Chase.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be – Sydney J. Harris.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine – Thomas Jefferson.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government – Thomas Jefferson.

Democracy is not being, it is becoming. It is easily lost, but never finally won – William Hastie.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter – Winston Churchill.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried – Winston Churchill.