#democracy

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people. ↗

— Walter Lippmann

#ballots #charters #democracy #direct #illiterate

Amnesty International continues to report that extra judicial tortures and murders continue. This is not democracy that we are exporting to Mexico, and this is certainly not what the Mexican workers signed up for. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#certainly #continue #continues #democracy #exporting

You do not export democracy through the Defense Department or the Defense Secretary. You do it through trade agreements, through the Department of Commerce and favorable agreements with our friends and neighbors across the globe. ↗

— Stephen F. Lynch

#agreements #commerce #defense #democracy #department

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#democracy #does #make #must #notion

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person. ↗

— James Madison

#administer #assemble #citizens #consisting #democracy

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#amount #certain #democracy #human #implies

We always hear about the rights of democracy, but the major responsibility of it is participation. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#always #democracy #hear #major #participation

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#essentially #worthless

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#art #cage #circus #democracy #monkey

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#collective #democracy #ignorance #individual #pathetic