As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
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 is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
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
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 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
