Quotations
Democracy

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

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

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

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde

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

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

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg

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