The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
Lord Hailsham
Category: Democracy, Politics is...
The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honourable Gentleman for four and a half years.
Neville Chamberlain
On Aneurin Bevan
Category: Labour Politicians (quotes about), Democracy
A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.
Aristotle
Category: Democracy
Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
Clement Attlee 1962
Category: Democracy
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H L Mencken
Category: Democracy
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of governement except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill
Category: Democracy
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Category: Democracy
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H L Mencken
Category: Democracy
In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.
Chris Patten
Category: Democracy
Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy.
Peter Ustinov
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Democracy
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least
Robert Byrne
Category: Democracy
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 having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
Category: Democracy
