“It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
“The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire
“The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston Churchill
“Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.”
Oscar Wilde
“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people”
“At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man walking into the little booth with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper.”
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