Ed Townsend Quotes

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

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

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

It is conflict combined with consent, not consent alone, which preserves democracy from eroding into oligarchy.

An equality of estate will give an equality of power; and an equality of power is a commonwealth, or democracy…

Democratic government requires the consent of the governed.

To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most completely fulfills the highest function of a government - the realisation of the will of the people.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

All of my novels are democracies.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Democracy fascinates me.