Quotations
Democracy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston S. Churchill
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
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
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
- Anonymous
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard
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 means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
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