Quotations
Democracy

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- 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 is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous

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

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

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

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

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

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

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