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To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

— John Drinkwater

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained.

— Joseph Story

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.

— George Bancroft

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

— Winston Churchill

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

— Algernon Sidney

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

— John C. Calhoun

✗Opposing Perspectives

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

— James Monroe