Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Quotations
Democracy
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
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
