Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Democracy
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
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
