tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post971119118125932574..comments2023-11-02T04:40:21.698-07:00Comments on Dr. Eric Edmond's Blog: Farage on SyriaEric Edmondhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11661176160109187800noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112651969466158066.post-16735546557955347912013-09-18T01:00:40.544-07:002013-09-18T01:00:40.544-07:00We praise our Democracy. Hitler started by us...We praise our Democracy. Hitler started by using Democratic principles but eventually resorted to undemocratic actions in Parliament plus the use of force. He was an overt terrorist actually if you define terrorism as the minority using force to overcome the majority. <br />One could level the same theory for Syria except that ASSAD, an authoritarian himself is resisting the terrorism of the other factions.<br /><br />Winston Churchill's view of DEMOCRACY is often quoted - it is among this list.<br /><br />Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy! <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), Notes on Democracy, 1926Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878 - 1969)The idea of an election is much more interesting to me than the election itself...The act of voting is in itself the defining moment. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Democracy in America, 1992Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Marquis de Flers Robert and Arman de CaillavetIn democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Mogens JallbergMany 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. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Hansard, November 11, 1947A republican government is slow to move, yet once in motion it's momentum becomes irresistible. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Tom Stoppard (1937 - ), Jumpers (1972) act 1On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. <br />[info][add][mail][note]<br />Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)ALAN WOODnoreply@blogger.com