Quotations
Democracy

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

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 must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

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

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 being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne

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

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

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