Donald Sassoon Quotes

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

Democracy is more than just having free elections. It's having political structures.

Democracy is good, provided the government can function.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy can be defined in many different ways. This is one reason why there have existed so many varieties of -democratic- states in the world

Once confined to a handful of wealthy countries, it [democracy] became, in a short period of time, the most popular political system in the world. In 1900, only 10 countries were democracies. By mid-century, the number had increased to 30…. By 2005 fully 119 of the world’s 190 countries had become democracies.

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.

Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

The people want to go back to the time when democracy was in full bloom.

Give me a bad democracy, a sick democracy, but democracy!

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

One of the distinctions between democracy and other forms of government is that while democracy is messy on the surface, other forms of government are messy underneath.

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and adjusting of balance between individual freedom and general order.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

The existence of parties is not necessary to a free government.

Democracy is politics.

If any country wants to develop, it must practice democracy. If I look around the world, I see that the prosperous countries practice democracy.

Democracy cannot be created out of thin air

Democracy sounded well and good, but its results are seen not to agree at all with its title. Monarchy, on the contrary, has an unpleasant sound, but is a more practical form of government to live under. For it is easier to find a single excellent man, than to find many of them.

The colonists were struggling not only against the armies of a great nation, but against the settled opinions of mankind; for the world did not then believe that the supreme authority of government could be safely entrusted to the guardianship of the people themselves.

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

We had a revolution 2 years ago, and we see a people moving from a completely authoritarian system into a democracy. They don’t know how democracy works. They don’t know the ingredients of a democracy.

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