Quotations
Democracy

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

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

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

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 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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston S. Churchill

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

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