Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. --Gore Vidal

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. --Abraham Lincoln, 1858

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

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. --John Stuart Mill

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. --J. W. Fulbright

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. --James Fenimore Cooper

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. --Roger Baldwin

The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. --Nick Nuessle