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The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.
~ Lewis Mumford, in Anne Chisholm, Philosophers of the Earth: Conversations with Ecologists, 1972

It might be more worthwhile if we stopped wringing our hands and started ringing our congressmen.
~ Author Unknown

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
~ Winston Churchill

If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.
~ Kelvin Throop

We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government.
~ William Howard Taft

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
~ James Russell Lowell

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
~ George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, "Maxims: Education," 1905

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
~ Woodrow Wilson

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
~ St. Augustine

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
~ Benjamin Lichtenberg


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