Jean-Jacques Rousseau on democracy

To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say and to finish without knowing what you have written.

A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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.