Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Quotations
Democracy
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 the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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
