Edmund Burke Quotes

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

Democracy divides the population into two groups: those of us who complain about government and those of us who are complained about.

Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

If you give up on democracy, you might as well give up on everything.

It is democracy I am really suffering from as much as I am suffering from the opposition.

Democracy is good for world peace.

Democracy is good for everybody.

Democracy is the right choice and is the greatest form of government ever created.

We are a democratic - we are living in democracy.

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

Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs

Modern life means democracy, democracy means freeing intelligence for independent effectivenessthe emancipation of mind as an individual organ to do its own work. We naturally associate democracy, to be sure, with freedom of action, but freedom of action without freed capacity of thought behind it is only chaos.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

If democracy is such a good thing, let's have more of it.

Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism, which is too exciting, it emerges as the most palatable form of government.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

I'm a patriot, and I think democracy is the best system available. It's very flawed, but it works better than anything else.

Democracy is a gleaming Excalibur - let's not use it just to mend the toaster.

Democracy is always frustrating.

Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is.

I've always lived in a democratic society.

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence a zest and camaraderie that outweighed its pitfalls and defects. It gave to thought and science and enterprise the freedom essential to their operation and growth. It broke down the walls of privilege and class, and in each generation it raised up ability from every rank and place.

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.