Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Quotations
Democracy
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-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 must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
