John Calvin Coolidge
View AuthorIt would be foolish to pretend that the people cannot make political mistakes. They can make them, and serious ones. The people know it and pay the consequences; but compared to the mistakes that have been committed by any kind of autocracy, these others are unimportant.
Denis Diderot
View AuthorThere is no legitimate sovereign other than the nation; there can be no legitimate legislator other than the people.
John Dos Passos
View AuthorOur entire system of government is based on the idea that no man is good enough to be trusted with more than limited power over his fellow men.
Elbert Hubbard
View AuthorDemocracy has at least one merit, and that is that a member of Parliament cannot be more incompetent than those who voted for them.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
View AuthorDemocracy is a superior form of government because it is based on respect for man as a rational being.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorDemocracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Abraham Lincoln
View AuthorJust as I would not be a slave, I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
James Russell Lowell
View AuthorDemocracy grants each man the right to be the oppressor of himself.
Montesquieu
View AuthorDemocracy must guard against two excesses: the spirit of inequality, which leads to aristocracy, and the spirit of extreme equality, which leads to despotism.
Enrique Múgica Herzog
View AuthorDemocracy is not silence, it is the clarity with which problems are exposed and the existence of means to solve them.
José Ortega y Gasset
View AuthorDemocracy [...] as a political norm seems like an optimal thing. But [...] of democracy in thought and deed, democracy in the heart and in custom, is the most dangerous disease that a society can suffer.
Octavio Paz
View AuthorA nation without free elections is a nation without voice, without eyes, and without arms.