Quotations
Democracy

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

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston S. Churchill

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
- Winston S. Churchill

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

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

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