Democracy
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If your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try to silence you.
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Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.
The voice of the people has something divine; else how could so many agree to one thing?
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
The difference between a Democracy and a Dictatorship is that in a Democracy you vote first and take orders later
Democracy becomes a government of bullies, tempered by editors.
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on buses and in the subway.
There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush.
