Top 32 Quotes About Democracy Churchill
#3. At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point.
Winston Churchill
#4. I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message.
Winston Churchill
#5. He (Jimmie Foxx) has muscles in his hair.
Lefty Gomez
#6. One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.
Winston Churchill
#7. This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought; and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#9. The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.
Winston Churchill
#10. Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.
Winston Churchill
#11. If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.
Winston Churchill
#12. All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
Vera Wang
#13. She is a human being capable of conscious thought, which is a complete fucking miracle, and she is beautiful and we are lucky that she is on the planet with us.
John Green
#14. When the five of our voices come together, there is a special something there. That is something that I know.
Jaejoong
#15. Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day. - Stuart Wilde
Dan Millman
#16. Bet you weren't expecting this," before my other hand grabbed the back of her head and used all my body weight to slam her head into the table.
Tijan
#17. This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost us the election, and yet if we were to have them killed, we would be the ones to go to jail. That's democracy for you!
Winston Churchill
#18. The word 'Italy' is a geographical expression, a description which is useful shorthand, but has none of the political significance the efforts of the revolutionary ideologues try to put on it, and which is full of dangers for the very existence of the states which make up the peninsula.
Klemens Von Metternich
#19. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston S. Churchill
#20. Democracy is a very bad form of government ... but all the others are so much worse.
Winston Churchill
#21. 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
#22. I was writing for a publishing company in this old building right next to the RCA Victor Studio in Nashville. We were on the top floor, and Combine Music was on the bottom floor. I was friends with all those guys.
Donnie Fritts
#23. Democracy means that when there's a knock in the door at 3 am, it's probably the milkman.
Winston Churchill
#25. Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.
Winston Churchill
#26. It's a sad moment when you come to understand how truly replaceable you are.
Jonathan Tropper
#27. It is the constant and undying hope for improvement that makes golf so exquisitely worth playing.
Bernard Darwin
#28. Similar to Churchill's view that "democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried," although it is by no means a bulletproof theory, the CAPM is the best theory to explain the risk/return relationship that the greatest financial minds have been able to devise.
Matthew Krantz
#29. It is the people who control the Government, not the Government the
people.
Winston S. Churchill
#30. He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
Charles Hodge
#31. When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don't have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when others make it after you
Pablo Picasso
#32. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
Winston S. Churchill
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