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Letter "D" » democracies
«There is one safeguard known generally to the wise, which is an advantage and security to all, but especially to democracies as against despots - suspicion.»
Author: Demosthenes
| Keywords:
all but, democracies, despots, safeguard, safeguarded, Safeguarding, safeguards, suspicion
«It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.»
Author: James Fenimore Cooper
(Novelist)
| About:
Mankind
| Keywords:
besets, besetting, democracies, exhibit, exhibited, exhibiting, exhibits, public opinion, usual
«I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses, for the dictatorships it puts in the place of democracies, and for the starvation that stalks after it. I hate war, and never again will I sanction or support another.»
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
| Keywords:
democracies, dictatorships, hatreds, propagated, propagates, propagating, sanction, sanctioned, stalked, stalking, stalks, undying
«The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.»
Author: Lewis Mumford
(Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Government
| Keywords:
democracies, Something Different
«Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
decline, degenerate, degenerated, degenerating, democracies, republics
«All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person or small group have too much power for too long a time»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracies, extremely, group, one-person, proposition
«Democracies don't go to war against each other, and by and large they don't sponsor terrorism. They're more likely to respect the environment and human rights and social justice. It's no accident that most of the terrorists come from non-democratic countries.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
accident, by and large, countries, democracies, democratic, environment, go to war, Human rights, it No, social justice, social rights, sponsor, sponsored, sponsors, terrorism, terrorists
«You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people'.' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aristocracies, aristocracy, classes, democracies, Kaiser, Presidents, ruler, working class
«Such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.»
Author: James Madison
(President)
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contention, contentions, deaths, democracies, incompatible, personal property, spectacles, turbulence, violent death
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