"Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them."
― Dean Inge
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Government
― Dean Inge
More From Dean Inge
- "Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves."
- "Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove."
- "The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
More In Government
- "The fact is, almost every year since the founding of these United States, our government has lived beyond its means."― Paul Gillmor
- "I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it."― Andrew Jackson
- "Old age is not a disease – it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses."― Maggie Kuhn