All the blood is drained out of democracy - it dies - when only half the population votes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
Democracy is dead in the Maldives.
Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
In history, the millions win; that is democracy.
It's actually very easy for democracy to disappear.
There never was a democracy yet where the people didn't vote themselves into oblivion.
Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.