Jon Stewart Quotes

You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence democracy, and the other tyranny.

We're not a democracy.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.

We cannot impose democracy where it has no constituency.

A country can live under a monarchy or a republic, with a parliamentary or a presidential system, under communism or fascism. But it cannot live in anarchy.

Not all countries are ready for it [democracy].

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three.

There's not a system better than another. There are some people better than others. I'm not anti-democracy, but there's no real system yet that has proven itself to be the right one.

But our perfect democracy, which neither needs nor particularly wants voters, is a rarity. It is important to remember there still exist many other forms of government in the world today, and that dozens of foreign governments still long for a democracy such as ours to be imposed on them.

One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle.

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

It is not good to have a rule of many.

History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Obama is cutting back on the idea that we're going to have Jeffersonian democracy in Pakistan or anywhere else.

The main division in the world is between democratic and undemocratic countries.

Can you get a democracy in Saudi Arabia? These people talk about theocracy, not democracy. So I think it's a very tough situation.

Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism.... We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole.

I think that there is a limit on how far you can export democracy.