“The ballot is stronger than the bullet.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.”
Alexander Woollcott
“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear”
Alan Coren
“People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote - a very different thing.”
Walter H. Judd
“America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy -- and won't cross the street to vote in a national election.”
William E Bill Vaughan
“It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.”
Tom Stoppard