Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
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 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"
