Democracy Substitutes Election by the Incompetent Many for Appointment by the Corrupt Few

The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.

Art Spander

They campaign in poetry, but they govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo

Bad politicians are sent to power by good people who don't vote.

William E. Simon

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

George Bernard Shaw

The people who cast the votes do not decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Joseph Stalin

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Author unknown

A voter is one who enjoys the sacred privilege of voting for the man of another man's choice.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

James Bovard

"The people have spoken! The bastards!!!"

Dick Tuck U.S. political prankster after his defeat in 1964 Election

If you are in the minority – speak, if you are in the majority – vote!

Rodger Sherman

If your voice is louder than others’, that does not necessarily mean that you are right.

Chinese wisdom

Vote is the instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

To change masters is not to be free.

Jose Marti y Perez

Elections are a good deal like marriages, Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why She ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials.

Will Rogers

An election is a moral horror, a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw

Россия - государство будущего, ибо прошлое ее ужасающе, а настоящее туманно.

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