Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
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
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
-Benjamin Lichtenberg
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
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"
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
