Democracy · Skopia

Quotes

63

Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Winston Churchill

1947

★ 9.4

Philosophical dialogue · Dialogue · Philosophical literature

Democracy passes into despotism.

Plato, Republic · 375 BC

★ 8.3

Political literature · Philosophical literature

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Politics · 350 BC

★ 8.1

Speech · Political speech

Parties must ever exist in a free country.

On Conciliation with America · 1775

★ 7.0

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Books

8

Democracy in America

Alexis de Tocqueville

1840★ 8.6

The Federalist Papers

Alexander Hamilton and James Madison

1788★ 7.3

Common Sense (Collected Writings)

1776★ 7.2

Black Reconstruction in America

1935★ 7.0

One-Dimensional Man

Herbert Marcuse

1964★ 6.8

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere

Jurgen Habermas

1962★ 6.8

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