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 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.

 Democracy: The Crude leading the Crud

 Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders
  Henry Louis Mencken

 El Salvador is a democracy so it's not surprising that there are many voices to be heard here. Yet in my conversations with Salvadorans... I have heard a single voice.
  Dan Quayle

 Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

 Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
  Henry Louis Mencken

 I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both
  Thomas Macaulay

 I refuse to stand by while our democracy is trampled by politicians more concerned about amassing power than helping the people who sent them to Washington in the first place.
  Senator John Kerry

 I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences
  Walt Whitman

 I shall use America and democracy as convertible terms
  Walt Whitman

 I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.
  Alexander Woollcott

 In a constitutional democracy the moral content of law must be given by the morality of the framer or legislator, never by the morality of the judge

 In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

 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.

 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.


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