Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Quotations
Democracy
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
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
