Quotations
Democracy

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

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous

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

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
- Bertrand Russell

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

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

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

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

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

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
- Ambrose Bierce

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