Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. - George Bernard Shaw
Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes
Democracy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone will fail. - John F. Kennedy
(Vice President) Garner has taken his personal smallness, his lack of generosity, and forged it into a political principle. He has no imagination, no convictions, and he substitutes political cynicism for social understanding. - Hamilton Basso
And in my novels I live many lives. Substitutes of spontaneity to replace a dreary reality. How I live for those inky black words and kaleidoscope colored experiences. - Hubert Martin