The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.Thomas Jefferson
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.Winston Churchill
You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.Winston Churchill
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
One of the statistics that always amazes me is the approval of the Chinese government, not elected, is over 80 percent. The approval of the U.S. government, fully elected, is 19 percent. Well, we elected these people and they didn't elect those people. Isn't it supposed to be different? Aren't we supposed to like the people that we elected?Bill Gates
Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore.Bill Gates
Concentration of executive power, unless it's very temporary and for specific circumstances, let's say fighting world war two, it's an assault on democracy.Noam Chomsky
