Hernando de Soto Quotes

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

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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

Democracy is politics.

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

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.

Democracy is a process.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Democracy is far more complex than simply choosing the people who govern you.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Polls give candidates a method to find out what voters want.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

Democracy is messy.

Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy.

Liberal democracies have their own means of holding leaders accountable. They are called elections.

Democracy is a self-correcting mechanism.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.