Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Quotations
Democracy
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
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
