Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
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
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
