E. B. White Quotes

Since James Madison day (and long before), there have been constant struggles over "democratic governance".

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

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

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

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

As an American I am of course fundamentally opposed to democracy and to anyone advocating or defending democracy, which in theory and practice is the basis of socialism.

One of the benefits of a properly functioning democracy is minority rights and majority rule.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

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

My interest is, my one hobby is, maintaining a democracy. If you get these 500,000 soldiers advocating anything smelling of Fascism, I am going to get 500,000 more and lick the hell out of you, and we will have a real war right at home.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful stroke!

Democracy is good for everybody.

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

Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse. So we are forced to accept democracy. It has good points and also bad. But merely saying that democracy will solve all problems is utterly wrong. Problems are solved by intelligence and hard work.

Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

Elected representatives are so embedded in the basic notion of what constitutes a democratic nation that it has become indistinguishable from any other form of democratic governance.

Democracy is a good client.

I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

We must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

The army is a poor school for democracy.