Nigel Rees Quotes

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

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

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

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.

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

You can not possibly have a broader basis for government than that which includes all the people, with all their rights in their hands, and with an equal power to maintain their rights.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The function of a parliamentary democracy, under universal suffrage, historically considered, is to expose wealth-privilege to the attacks of the people.

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 democracy is the name of a government of those who are ruling for their own advantage, in opposition to the rich, or to any specific people.

Democracy is the best revenge.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have.

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

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Democracy is a good client.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.