Politics:Democracy

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

- Alan Corenk

Democracy [is] when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

- Aristotle

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

- Aristotle

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

- E. B. White

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

- George Bernard Shaw

Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means that we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats, We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

- Hellen Keller

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Democracy, the decietful theory that the jew would insinuate. Namely that all men are created equal.

- Adolf Hitler, "Mein Kampf" ( ? ), In Politics/Nazism

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey-cage.

- H.L.Menken, In Politics

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