Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2016-08-30 Aug 30, 2016Repeal that [welfare] law, and you will soon see a change in their manners. ... Six days shalt thou labor, though one of the old commandments long treated as out of date, will again be looked upon as a respectable precept; industry will increase, and with it plenty among the lower people; their circumstances will mend, and more will be done for their happiness by inuring them to provide for themselves, than could be done by dividing all your estates among them.~ Benjamin FranklinThe evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity, but the triumph of bad quality.~ Guido De RuggieroDemocracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.~ James Russell Lowell Aug 29, 2016Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.~ George Bernard ShawThe tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.~ James Fenimore CooperDemocracy, with its promise of international peace, has been no better guarantee against war than the old dynastic rule of kings.~ Jan C. Smuts Aug 26, 2016A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.~ AristotleLiberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.~ Fisher AmesDemocracies 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.~ James Madison Aug 25, 2016Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. MenckenInstitutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayA democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.~ Thomas Jefferson Aug 24, 2016Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.~ Charles S. MaierSince National Socialism came to power, I have striven to make its consequences milder for its victims and to prepare the way for a change. In that, my conscience drove me -- and in the end, that is a man's duty.~ Helmuth JamesThis manual of the Communist Party should be in the hands of every loyal American, that they may be alerted to the fact that it is not always by armies and guns that a nation is conquered.~ Kenneth Goff Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print