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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.
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 the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.