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In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks.
Democracy
Chris Patten

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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Democracy
Laurence J. Peter

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Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy.
Democracy
Earl Riney

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To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.
Eloquence
Bertrand Russell

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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
Bureaucracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Democracy
George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
Democracy
John Simon

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All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Democracy
Alfred E. Smith

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It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Voting
Tom Stoppard

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Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.
Vulgarity
Source Unknown

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Democracy
Oscar Wilde

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

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I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.
Democracy
Woodrow T. Wilson

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The world must be made safe for democracy.
Democracy
Woodrow T. Wilson

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun