Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges
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 means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston S. Churchill
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
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