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| Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. (John Quincy Adams) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. (Agnes Repplier) | [▲] | [▼] |
| ... the 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. (Alex Carey) | [▲] | [▼] |
| If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. (Barbara Ehrenreich) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. (C. S. Lewis) | [▲] | [▼] |
| There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots. What is it? Distrust. (Demosthenes) | [▲] | [▼] |
| It is not the fact of liberty but the way in which liberty is exercised that ultimately determines whether liberty itself survives. (Dorothy Thompson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only force that can overcome an idea and a faith is another and better idea and faith, positively and fearlessly upheld. (Dorothy Thompson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare. (Dorothy Thompson) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor that we have a democracy, and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it. [1941] (Edward Dowling) | [▲] | [▼] |
| The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with. (Eleanor Holmes Norton) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences. (Eugene McCarthy) | [▲] | [▼] |
| When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. (Eugene V. Debs) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In 1929 the wise, far-seeing electors of my native Hereford sent me to Westminster and, two years later, the lousy bastards kicked me out. (Frank Owen) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. (George Bernard Shaw) | [▲] | [▼] |
| In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. (George Orwell) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality. (George Washington) | [▲] | [▼] |
| As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their hearts desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| A good politician under democracy is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. (H. L. Mencken) | [▲] | [▼] |
| Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country. (Hermann Goering) | [▲] | [▼] |