Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-03-12 Mar 12, 2008All lawful authority comes from God to the people.~ Constitution of the Irish Free StateI know that most men -- not only those considered clever, but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems -- can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed, perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud, which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives.~ Leo Nikolaevich TolstoiFreedom has a thousand charms to show, That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.~ William Cowper Mar 11, 2008Envy is the basis of Democracy.~ Bertrand RussellDemocracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.~ Oscar WildeDemocracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling buisness: and gives in the long run a net result of zero.~ Thomas Carlyle Mar 10, 2008The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality.~ Guido De RuggieroIt's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.~ Tom StoppardAs long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?~ William Marcy Tweed Mar 7, 2008Ten million ignorances do not constitute one knowledge.~ Clemens von MetternichDemocracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.~ Jan C. SmutsDemocracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca Mar 6, 2008The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.~ Edmund BurkeThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.~ James Fenimore CooperInstitutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.~ Thomas Babington Macaulay Mar 5, 2008If you establish a democracy, you must in due time reap the fruits of a democracy. You will in due season have great impatience of the public burdens, combined in due season with great increase of the public expenditure. You will in due season have wars entered into from passion and not from reason; and you will in due season submit to peace ignominiously sought and ignominiously obtained, which will diminish your authority and perhaps endanger your independence. You will in due season find your property is less valueable, and your freedom less complete.~ Benjamin DisraeliIt will be necessary for us to be a nation of men, and not laws.~ Dick CheneyThe evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy. The people do not want virtue, but are the dupes of pretended patriots.~ Elbridge Gerry Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print