Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Quotations
Democracy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
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"
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
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
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
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
