John McDonnell Quotes

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is a self-correcting mechanism.

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

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

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.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 is hypocrisy without limitation.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.

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

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

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

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

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.

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

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

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.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Democracy is a process.

The freedom to persuade and suggest is the essence of the democratic process.

The wastes of democracy are among the greatest obvious wastes, but we have compensations in democracy which far outweigh that waste and make it more efficient than absolutism.

Democracy is the least static form of society. Its basis is reason not authority.

Democracy is the best revenge.