Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol
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
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
- Tom Stoppard
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