Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotations
Democracy
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 process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
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
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
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-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"
