"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H. L. Mencken
"Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." - Plato
"Democracy is the road to socialism." - Karl Marx
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve." - George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man." - Ronald Reagan
"Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"There can be no democracy without truth. There can be no truth without controversy, there can be no change without freedom. Without freedom there can be no progress." - Andrew Young
"Journalism is what we need to make democracy work." - Walter Cronkite
"Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy." - Michael Moore