It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Quotations
Democracy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
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 means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
