Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Quotations
Democracy
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
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
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 "Tom Stoppard"
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
