Quotations
Democracy
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
- Theodore Parker
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston S. Churchill
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
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Winston S. Churchill
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