Democracy - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[I regard freedom of expression as the primary right without which one can not have a proper functioning democracy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63816<![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11895<![CDATA[Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11896<![CDATA[In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11897<![CDATA[Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11898<![CDATA[Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11899<![CDATA[Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11900<![CDATA[Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11901<![CDATA[Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11877<![CDATA[Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11878<![CDATA[A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11879<![CDATA[Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.' ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11880<![CDATA[Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11881<![CDATA[All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11882<![CDATA[It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11883<![CDATA[Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11884<![CDATA[Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11885<![CDATA[Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11886<![CDATA[Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11887<![CDATA[Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11888<![CDATA[Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11889<![CDATA[Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11890<![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11891<![CDATA[Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11892<![CDATA[In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11893<![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11894<![CDATA[Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11875<![CDATA[To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11876<![CDATA[Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11852<![CDATA[The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11853<![CDATA[It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11854<![CDATA[In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11855<![CDATA[Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11856<![CDATA[A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11857<![CDATA[Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11858<![CDATA[As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11859<![CDATA[You get fifteen Democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11860<![CDATA[The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11861<![CDATA[For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11862<![CDATA[A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11863<![CDATA[And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11864<![CDATA[You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11865<![CDATA[At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11866<![CDATA[Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.] ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11867<![CDATA[The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11868<![CDATA[Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11869<![CDATA[Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11870<![CDATA[God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11871<![CDATA[Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11872<![CDATA[Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11873