Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Democracy Quotes
As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State ‘What does it matter to me?’ the State may be given up for lost.
I think, then, that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything that ever before existed in the world; our contemporaries will find no prototype of it in their memories. I seek in vain for an expression that will accurately convey the whole of the idea I have formed of […]
In the U.S. we have a method of formulating defense policy which is influenced by pork barrel legislation, technological results of federally subsidized research and development, a desire to keep large corporations afloat, and intersevice competition. We as citizens are not often involved in the formulation of policy beyond letting our representative know that jobs […]
Democracy, the modern world’s holy cow, is in crisis… every kind of outrage is being committed in the name of democracy. It has become little more than a hollow word, a pretty shell, emptied of all content or meaning.
I am not a ‘democrat’ only because ‘humility’ and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power – and then we get and are […]
I am tired of hearing that democracy doesn’t work – it isn’t supposed to work. We are supposed to work it.
Democracy is the Free World’s whore, willing to dress up, dress down, willing to satisfy a whole range of tastes, available to be used and abused at will.
There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.
A free America, democratic in the sense that our forefathers intended it to be, means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
