Peter T. King Quotes

Democracy is a good client.

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

Democracy is a process.

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

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

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

It is not good to have a rule of many.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

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

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

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

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

A democracy delegates leadership. It cannot surrender to it.... The genuinely democratic community rightfully views the hero with suspicion and is notoriously ungrateful.

Democracy is that system of government under which the people, having 35,717,342 native-born whites to choose from, including thousands who are handsome and many who are wise, pick out a Coolidge to be head of the State.

A republic is little better than a government of devils

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

A true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

There is no better form of government than democracy.

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

Politics is activity in relation to power.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.