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
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
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 road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
