Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Quotations
Democracy
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's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
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
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
