The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
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 the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
