The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid. In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
John Simon Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people. Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. James Russell Lowell Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man.