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

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin Franklin

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

  ?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill

• 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.

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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