Quotations
Democracy

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.
- Karl Marx

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

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

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

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