Autocracy Quote by Aberjhani

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.…

— Kathryn Lasky

“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Most people know nothing about freedom; only the facsimile of freedom into which they were inculcated.”

— Bryant McGill

“We must endure the ignorant to protect the liberty of the majority.”

— James D. Best

“There is no freedom in the land of ignorance.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“Kennedy echoed Stanley Baldwin that a democracy is always two years behind a dictator.”

— Scott Farris

“For Jefferson, power came before freedom. Indeed, power creates freedom, not the other way around—as the powerless are taught.”

— Ibram X. Kendi

“The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter if the…

— William Stevenson

“Democracy was supposed to champion freedom of speech, and yet the simple rules of table decorum could clamp down on the rights their forefathers…

— E.A. Bucchianeri

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

— Gordy Slack

“And liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people who have a right from the frame of their nature to knowledge...”

— John Adams

“In a democracy where the ignorant are in the majority, democracy always slides towards autocracy.”

— Mehmet Murat ildan