Quotations
Democracy

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

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

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 is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol

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

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

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

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

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