Quotations
Democracy

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
- Irving Kristol

It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
- Tom Stoppard

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
- George Bernard Shaw

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln

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 not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
- Theodore Parker

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