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.
I missed something. The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.