It's political Daddyism and it's as old as demagogues and…

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has…

— Barry Goldwater

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or…

— Benjamin Disraeli

Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing…

— Frank Herbert

Syllogisms а la mode - If you are against labor racketeers, then you are against the working man. If you are against demagogues, then…

— H. L. Mencken

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

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