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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. - Thomas Jefferson.

I swear to the Lord,I still can't see,

Why Democracy means,Everybody but me. -

Langston Hughes.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. -

Abraham Lincoln.

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal. - Jeane Kirkpatrick.

It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. -

Thomas Mann.

Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country. -

Daniel Greenberg. Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. -

Plato.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny. -

James F. Cooper.

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed. -

Lee Harvey Oswald.

Democracy's a very fragile thing. You have to take care of democracy. As soon as you stop being responsible to it and allow it to turn into scare tactics, it's no longer democracy, is it? It's something else. It may be an inch away from totalitarianism. -

Sam Shepard.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization. -

Winston Churchill.

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: "Thou shalt not ration justice." -

Sophocles.