Dean Acheson Quotes

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

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

Democracy is a good client.

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

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

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

Democracy is politics.

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

Democracy's got endless problems and faults and dangers, but it's certain the alternatives are not better.

In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

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

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democracy is a process.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

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

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

Democracy is an open wound that the East has been carrying for centuries.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few