The big thing we know from John Stuart Mill is that democracy is government by discussion and if you make discussion fearful, you are not getting democracy, no matter how you count the votes. – Amartya Sen
Elections and their corruptions, injustice and the power and tyranny of wealth and inefficiency of administration, will make a hell of life as soon as freedom is given to us. – Rajaji in the ‘Vellore Jail Diary” (1921)
No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time (and found to be worse!) – Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln famously described democracy as “government of the people, by the people, for the people”. I distinctly remember reading in my college English textbook (“Democracy and the Individual”?) that Lincoln’s definition may be good rhetoric but a sound government cannot be built on the basis of prepositions (of, by, for). How true!
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