Quotations
Democracy

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

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

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 is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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

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

Democracy is the road to socialism.
- Karl Marx

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

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

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