Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
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
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
