Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2003-09-22 Sep 22, 2003American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the poorest and most ignorant part of the society.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.~ Sir Winston ChurchillDemocracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterI like the noise of democracy.~ James Buchanan Sep 19, 2003To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.~ Edmund BurkeGet all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.~ Frank DaneWhen it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.~ Friedrich August von Hayek Sep 18, 2003A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.~ Bill VaughanDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.~ E. B. WhitePeople often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.~ Walter H. Judd Sep 17, 2003Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.~ Ambrose BierceA democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.~ AristotleThe act of voting is one opportunity for us to remember that our whole way of life is predicated on the capacity of ordinary people to judge carefully and well.~ Alan Keyes Sep 16, 2003Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.~ James MadisonDemocracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.~ Walter E. WilliamsDemocracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.~ Sir Winston Churchill Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print