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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.

Quote by John Adams about democracy

Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should...

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...

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...

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...

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 must learn to defend itself.

Democracy must learn to defend itself.

Quote by Mikhail Gorbachev about democracy

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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

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