Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

H. L. Mencken

Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted

H. L. Mencken

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

H. L. Mencken

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

H. L. Mencken

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

GG Allin

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be.

Kate White

If Cosmo is Number 1 in China, can democracy be far behind?

Hunter S. Thompson

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

Howard Rheingold

You can't have an industrial revolution, you can't have democracies, you can't have populations who can govern themselves until you have literacy. The printing press simply unlocked literacy.

Howard Berman

Even before I was a Democrat, I was a Zionist.

Ibrahim Babangida

Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy.

Terry McAuliffe

If he were just another Republican with a book, he wouldn't sell any. But a Democrat out whacking Democrats sells books,

Michael Hirst

I felt that a lot of Viking culture had been caricatured and misconstrued. After all, they were far more democratic than the Saxons and the Francs, who were exercising really hierarchical social structures at that time. The Vikings had popular meetings where everything could be discussed.

Riordan Roett

I don't see how we can be opposed to that if it helps stabilize democratic systems.

Viktor Yushchenko

I am very happy that our Ukrainian people rose up and fought for freedom and democracy, and I think that we will have our victory,

How this gets handled will determine much about our dream, of having democracy in an Islamic country, reinforcing one another.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

Hillary Clinton

Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations.

Hillary Clinton

The public trust is at the core of both a free market economy and a democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.

Hillary Clinton

Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven.

Hillary Clinton

Prosperity can't be just for CEOs and hedge fund managers. Democracy can't be just for billionaires and corporations. Prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, too.

Herbert Croly

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be characterized not so much socialistic, as unscrupulously and loyally nationalistic.

Herbert Marcuse

Domination has its own aesthetics, and democratic domination has its democratic aesthetics.

Irving Babbitt

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Irving Babbitt

Commercialism is laying its great greasy paw upon everything including the irresponsible quest of thrills; so that, whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.

Harry Belafonte

Bring it on. Dissent is central to any democracy.

Carly Patterson

I'm working with producers right now as I haven't finished my demos yet. Hopefully we can have something out before the end of the year,

Bill Ritter

I'm talking to Democrats about this issue, and the response is very positive.

Colin McEnroe

I'm a registered Democrat and, like a lot of my species here in Connecticut, I don't know whom I'm going to vote for in August. If I had to vote tomorrow, I'd vote for Ned Lamont, but I'd leave the polling place shaking my head, wondering what the hell happened to Joe Lieberman.

If there are a lot of calls, we do take a look at that stuff. Some people like to demonize us. In many cases, we accommodate the students.

Douglas Brinkley

If Reagan had intelligence information that showed that the upheaval in Egypt is actually Democratic in spirit, then he would have, I believe, turned his back on Mubarak, even though there's a long friendship between the United States and Egypt.