Quotations
Democracy

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

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

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 the road to socialism.
- Karl Marx

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

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
- Winston S. Churchill

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

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