Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Democracy
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
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
