If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves,… — Ishmael Copy Share Image
It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by… — Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker Copy Share Image
Athens' biggest worry was the sheer recklessness of its own democratic government. A simple majority of the citizenry, urged on and incensed… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men. — Camille Desmoulins Copy Share Image
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There is a democratic deficit. In Latin America in particular there is real concern that democratic governments are not delivering and that… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
As long term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period. [...]… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
...governments, including free and democratic governments, are not really friendly to freedom and democracy. They abhor any rule of law that limits… — George Jonas Copy Share Image
My entire life was dedicated to defeating communism. I felt really great when Ronald Reagan helped us establish peace and the elimination… — Dana Rohrabacher Copy Share Image
Well, we're [USA] not looking for an ally; what we're looking for is a stable, democratic government that is not beholden to… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Governments are based pincipally on force and deception. Democratic governments are based chiefly on deception, other governments on force. And democratic governments,… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
I believe I have demonstrated that the voters are characteristically ill-informed when voting on reducing social costs. Furthermore, their primary concern is… — Gordon Tullock Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
To take an analogy: if we say that a democratic government is the best kind of government, we mean that it most… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Without commonly shared and widely entrenched moral values and obligations, neither the law, nor democratic government, nor even the market economy will… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles… — Ivan Krastev Copy Share Image
The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the… — Peter Boettke Copy Share Image
The president who is most slandered as Hitler will probably prove to be the most zealous advocate of democratic government abroad, the… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
When you can't do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damned secret, then we're on our way to something… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments,… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
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