As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
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 is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
