Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights…

— Frank Lautenberg

The Constitution and the laws are supreme and the Union indissoluble.

— Andrew Jackson

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the…

— Aristotle

Down with politics and the art of the possible; up with pronouncements and the allure of the prophetic: It's the way of demagogues everywhere.

— Bret Stephens

It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and despotism.

— Barry Goldwater

What faith has not been used by demagogues as a club over somebody's head?

— Francis Collins

Demagogues always do well in economic downturns.

— John Avlon

We have demagogues on all sides of the political spectrum. It's not helpful. It's destructive. It's harmful. So, I don't like demagoguery whether it…

— Ron Johnson

“Demagogues thrive in dim light.”

— Garrison Keillor

We cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause…

— Philip Gulley

Paralysis in decision-making breeds frustration and contempt from the electorate, and provides the perfect seedbed for demagogues who fill the vacuum with populist simplicities,…

— Dominic Grieve

“Like so many demagogues before him, Trump encouraged a zero-sum view of life where if someone else is gaining, you must be losing.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Demagogues and psychopaths dominated the political scene, and prejudice and intolerance were poisoning everything,”

— David Lagercrantz

“You [demagogues] are like the fishers for eels; in still waters they catch nothing, but if they thoroughly stir up the slime, their fishing…

— Aristophanes

The idea that democracies could be vulnerable to demagogues is not a new notion.

— Bill Kristol