- “Democratic institutions form a system of quarantine for tyrannical desires.” Friedrich Nietzsche #
- “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonl … #
- “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus #
- “When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.” Eug … #
- “The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy; the best weapon of a democracy is openness.” Edvard Teller #
- “A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” Napoleon Bonaparte #
- “Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.” Napoleon Bonaparte #
- “Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even f … #
- “Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” Thomas Jefferson #
- ”You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.” James Thurber #
- “Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, … #
- “If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the s … #
- ”Liberty is to the collective body what health is to every individual body. Without health, no pleasure can be tasted by man; without l … #
- “History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure … #
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” Mar … #
- “Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.” John Simon #
- “Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.” Sen … #
- “Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard … #
- “In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.” Chris Patten #
- “When the government fears the people, that is LIBERTY. When people fear the government, that is TYRANNY.” Author Unknown #
- “It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good.” Marcus Tullius Cicero #
- “Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it.” Charles Caleb Cotton #
- “Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.” African proverb #
- “You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.” Ma … #
- “Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.” John Stuart Mill #
- “Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.” Laurens van der Post #
- “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker #
- “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” Saul Bellow #
- “It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” Aristotle #
- “Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.” Thomas A. Edison #
- “Every civilizing step in history has been ridiculed as ‘sentimental’, ‘impractical’, or ‘womanish’, etc., by those whose fun, profit or … #
- “To feed men and not to love them is to treat them as if they were barnyard cattle. To love them and not respect them is to treat them a … #
- “Democracies don’t prepare well for things that have never happened before.” Richard A. Clarke, former White House counter- terrorism chief. #
- “Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and … #
- “Good government could never be a substitute for government by the people themselves.” Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, British Prime Minister #
- “A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election.” Bill Vaughan #
- “Only the educated are free.” Epictetus #
- “I have no respect for the passion for equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. #
- “It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens.” John Mayard Keynes #
- “Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.” Clement Atlee #
