E. B. White on democracy

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about ‘a’ man.

I wake each morning torn between the desire to improve the world and the desire to enjoy it. It makes it hard to plan the day.

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.