DEMOCRACY : SOME THOUGHTS

(1) Democracy is a form of government you have to keep for four years
.....no matter what it does.
.................................................Will Rogers.

(2) Democracy is a form of government which may be rationally defended,
.....not as being good,but as being less bad than any other.
.......................................William Ralph Inge.

(3) The man who is selling newspapers outside the houses of parliament
.....can safely leave his papers to go for a drink and his cap beside them:
.....anyone who takes a paper is sure to drop a copper in to the cap. But
.....the men who are inside the houses of parliament-they cannot trust
.....oneanother like that,still less can the government they compose trust
.....another governments. No caps upon the pavement here.
...............................................E.M.Forster

(4) If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library
.....with Plato and more time in the buses with people.
........................................Simeon Strunsky

(5) Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the
.....people are right more than half of the time.
...........................................E.B.White

(6) Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better
.....than we deserve.
................................George Bernard Shaw

(7) That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom
.....democratic.
..................................Woodrow Wilson.