democracy Quotes

“In place of the King’s arbitrary despotism they proposed, not the withering anarchy of feudal separatism, but a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant...”

― Winston Churchill, A History of the English-Speaking Peoples

topic:democracy

“To play the demagogue for purposes of self-interest is a cardinal sin against the people in a democracy, exactly as to play the courtier for such purposes is a cardinal sin against the people under other forms of government.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

topic:sin democracy

“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and the shortest means to accomplish it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:freedom war democracy

“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult—to begin a war, and to end it.”

― Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

topic:war peace democracy

“Oh, God, the terrible tyranny of the majority.”

― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

topic:democracy tyranny

“For 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.”

― Aristotle, Politics

topic:freedom government equality democracy

“Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”

― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience

topic:government democracy respect

“One of the fundamental problems of education in and for a democratic society is set by the conflict of a nationalistic and a wider social aim.”

― John Dewey, Democracy and Education

topic:education democracy

“In our society, those who have the best knowledge of what is happening are also those who are furthest from seeing the world as it is.”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:power democracy

“Democracy tells us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our groom; tradition asks us not to neglect a good man's opinion, even if he is our father.”

― G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

topic:democracy opinion respect

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