It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Quotations
Democracy
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
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 means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
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 is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
