“Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.”

Source: Strong democracy: Participatory politics for a new age (2003), p. 3

Adam Przeworski (1991) Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe, p. 26

Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1947/nov/11/parliament-bill#column_206 <br class="br">Post-war years (1945–1955) <br class="br">Variant: Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried. <br class="br">Context: Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. 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.

Preface, p. ix
The House Of Commons At Work (1993)

1990s, Inaugural speech (1994)

The Meaning of Conservatism (2001), p. 193

Book V, Chapter 13, "General Features of Democracy"

Massacre is the too possible attendant upon revolution , and massacre is perhaps the most hateful scene, alllowing for its omentary duration, that any imagination can suggest, The fearful, hopeless, expectation of the defeated, and the blood-hound fury of their conquerors, is a complication of mischief that all which has been told of internal regions can scarcely surpass. The cold-blooded massacres that are perpetrated under the naem of criminal justice fall short of these in some of their most frightful aggravations. The ministers and instruments of law have by perform, and often bear their parts in the most shocking enormities without being sensible to the passions allied murders with the rudeness of an insulting triumph ; and, as the conduct themselves , in a certain sort, by known principles of injustice, the evil we have reason to apprehend has its limits. But the instruments of massacre are discharged from every restraint.

Book VIII, Ch.
Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793)

26 June 1787 per page 105 of &quot;The Debates, Resolutions, and Other Proceedings, in Convention, on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: Supplementary to the state Conventions&quot; by Johnathan Elliot, published 1830 https://books.google.ca/books?id=-gtAAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=RA1-PA105 <br class="br">Debates of the Federal Convention (1787)

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