Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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
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 a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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"
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
