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Letter "D" » Democracy
«Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy»
«Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
extraordinary, in ordinary, ordinary people
«Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.»
«Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.»
Author: Robert Byrne
(Author, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Funny,
Politics
| Keywords:
allowed to vote, candidate, dislike
«Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.»
«Democracy is finding proximate solutions to insoluble problems.»
«Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.»
«Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
cage, circus, monkey, The Circus, The Monkey
«Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
Arcadia, category, Category As, Claus, Clauses, in the same category, put in, Santa, Santa Claus
«Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to keep politics and government secondary to the important things in life, the true sources of value found only in»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
constraints, of value, power politics, secondary, sources, system of government, unintrusive
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