Quotations
Democracy

Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
- Theodore Parker

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston S. Churchill

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
- Tom Stoppard

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston S. Churchill

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne

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