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“The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the rest; secondly, the greater number of citizens, and greater sphere of country, over which the latter may be extended.”
Quote by -Alexander Hamilton
“Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“It was not man who implanted in himself what is infinite and the love of what is immortal: those lofty instincts are not the offspring of his capricious will; their steadfast foundation is fixed in human nature, and they exist in spite of his efforts. He may cross and distort them – destroy them he cannot. The soul wants which must be satisfied; and whatever pains be taken to divert it from itself, it soon grows weary, restless, and disquieted amidst the enjoyments of sense.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The democratic nations that have introduced freedom into their political constitution at the very time when they were augmenting the despotism of their administrative constitution have been led into strange paradoxes. To manage those minor affairs in which good sense is all that is wanted, the people are held to be unequal to the task; but when the government of the country is at stake, the people are invested with immense powers; they are alternately made the play things of their ruler, and his masters, more than kings and less than men. After having exhausted all the different modes of election without finding one to suit their purpose, they are still amazed and still bent on seeking further; as if the evil they notice did not originate in the constitution of the country far more than in that of the electoral body.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“The province of Texas is still part of the Mexican dominions, but it will soon contain no Mexicans; the same thing has occurred whenever the Anglo-Americans have come into contact with populations of a different origin.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“He who in given cases consents to obey his fellows with servility, and who submits his will, and even his thoughts, to their control, how can he pretend that he wishes to be free?”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the consequences of their errors.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“I am of opinion, that, in the democratic ages which are opening upon us, individual independence and local liberties will ever be the produce of artificial contrivance; that centralization will be the natural form of government.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“the advantage of democracy is not, as has been sometimes asserted, that it protects the interests of the whole community, but simply that it protects those of the majority.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but it hides his descendants, and separates his contemporaries from him; it throws him back forever upon himself alone, and threatens in the end to confine him entirely within the solitude of his own heart.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of them.”
Quote by -Alexis de Tocqueville
Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on us from outside.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
Quote by -Vladimir Putin
If democracy is ever to be threatened, it will not be by revolutionary groups burning government offices and occupying the broadcasting and newspaper offices of the world. It will come from disenchantment, cynicism and despair caused by the realisation that the New World Order means we are all to be managed and not represented.
Quote by -Tony Benn
I think if you do have democracy it would transform the world because if the millions of people who die live on a dollar a day, had the vote, they would redistribute the wealth of the world, and the people at the top are not prepared to see that happen.
Quote by -Tony Benn
If democracy is destroyed in Britain it will be not the communists, Trotskyists or subversives but this House which threw it away. The rights that are entrusted to us are not for us to give away. Even if I agree with everything that is proposed, I cannot hand away powers lent to me for five years by the people of Chesterfield. I just could not do it. It would be theft of public rights.
Quote by -Tony Benn
I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world….because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.
Quote by -Tony Benn
I think to understand how the democratic process works is the most important thing, so people don't get frightened by it, and get put off, and give up.
Quote by -Tony Benn
I think democracy is not a destination. I don't think socialism is a railway station and if we catch the right train with the right driver, we'll get there. I think it's a way of thinking about things and every generation has to do it again.
Quote by -Tony Benn
Well, it all began with Democracy. Before we had the vote all the power was in the hands of rich people. If you had money you could get health care, education, look after yourself when you were old, and what democracy did was to give the poor the vote and it moved power from the marketplace to the polling station, from the wallet...to the ballot.
Quote by -Tony Benn
Parliamentary democracy is, in truth, little more than a means of securing a periodical change in the management team, which is then allowed to preside over a system that remains in essence intact. If the British people were ever to ask themselves what power they truly enjoyed under our political system they would be amazed to discover how little it is
Quote by -Tony Benn
We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.
Quote by -Larry Page
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken
If you believe in democracy, you accept, by definition, the existence and triumph of opposing ideas. The people who believe deeply in the Internet's force as a commons operate on that kind of premise.
Quote by -Ari Melber
It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Israel. If we insist on fulfilling the dream in its entirety, we are liable to lose it all. Everything. That is where the extremist path takes us.
Quote by -H. L. Mencken
The Democrats have to be stopped and that's going to be what ultimately brings us everybody back to sobriety here.
Quote by -Rush Limbaugh
The Democrats can't lose, so they got rid of Bob Torricelli, way beyond when it was permissible. The time for a replacement had passed, but the New Jersey Supreme Court made up of Democrat hacks said, "Hey, if our candidate can't go, sure you can put in a replacement."
Quote by -Rush Limbaugh
You can't go out and adopt Democrat policies all the way or halfway to show that you're not what they think you are.
Quote by -Rush Limbaugh
We cannot meet 'em [Democrates] halfway. We can't cross the aisle. These people, I'm talking about the left wherever you find them, the Democrats, they have to be defeated.
Quote by -Rush Limbaugh