Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
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 a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
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 being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
