Jimmy Carter on democracy

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of arms.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense…human rights invented America.

Short-circuiting the long-established principles of patient negotiation leads to war, not peace.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

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

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech in the House of Commons (11 November 1947), published in 206–07 The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series), 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc.