Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2008-11-04 Nov 4, 2008We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.~ Woody AllenTreason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.~ Sir John HaringtonThe devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles Baudelaire Nov 3, 2008No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.~ Hannah ArendtFreedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.~ Thomas SowellWe are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.~ Mark Twain Oct 31, 2008Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.~ Laurence J. PeterAs I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.~ Abraham LincolnDemocracy is the worst form of government except for all those others that have been tried.~ Sir Winston Churchill Oct 30, 2008Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.~ George Bernard ShawThe principle that the majority have a right to rule the minority, practically resolves all government into a mere contest between two bodies of men, as to which of them shall be masters, and which of them slaves; a contest, that -- however bloody -- can, in the nature of things, never be finally closed, so long as man refuses to be a slave.~ Lysander SpoonerA people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.~ William O. Douglas Oct 29, 2008All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the people ... turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. Give therefore to the first class a distinct, permanent share in the Government ... Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.~ Alexander HamiltonDemocracy, n.: A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of direct expression. Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic... negating property rights. Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, [chaos].~ U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard and who vote -- a very different thing.~ Walter H. Judd Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print