Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Quotations
Democracy
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
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
