Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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 "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
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
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
