As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
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: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
