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

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

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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