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.Quote by John Adams about democracy
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about chance, democracy, past, use
Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.Quote by Irving Babbitt about democracy
Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.Quote by Aristotel about democracy, respect, man
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.Quote by Aristotel about democracy, man
Democracy survives not only because people vote, but because most citizens (including most especially well-educated elites) really do believe in the values that undergird it.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about democracy, people
Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about air, democracy, public, life
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.Quote by Bertrand Russell about democracy, man, people
Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the people. It means that they can worship God in any way they feel right, and that includes Christians and Jews and voodoo...Quote by Dalton Trumbo about democracy, christians, people, wish, rightness, god
Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.Quote by Benito Mussolini about democracy
Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.Quote by Maggie Gallagher about prejudice
The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, history, country, world
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.Quote by John Adams about democracy
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that...Quote by Winston Churchill about democracy, sin, time, perfection, world
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about democracy, experience, history, nothing
The challenge as we saw in the Nigerian project was to restructure the economy decisively in the direction of a modern free market as an appropriate environment for cultivation of freedom and democracy and the natural emergence of a new social order.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about economy, democracy, order
The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.Quote by Ibrahim Babangida about evolution, democracy, problems
A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.Quote by Irving Babbitt about feelings, democracy
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.Quote by Irving Babbitt about democracy, man