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"
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
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
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"
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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
