While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government in the short run it is among the most fragile.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens who assemble and administer the government in person.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

Democracy means government by the uneducated while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy is worth dying for because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials but the voters of this country.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

It's not the voting that's democracy it's the counting.