There is no more democratic government than a revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro Copy Share Image
A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government. — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Ours is a fully democratic government, which in our language we call a people's government. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk Copy Share Image
Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government. — Robert Taft Copy Share Image
The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
A democratic government in South Africa is not a threat to white people. — Thabo Mbeki Copy Share Image
A democratic government that respects no limits on its power is a ticking time bomb, waiting to destroy the rights it was… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. — Alexis de Tocqueville 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
In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic… — Jeane Kirkpatrick Copy Share Image
The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Democratic government is difficult. It is much more difficult than populists claim. It's not like running a business or a police force.… — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not… — Lincoln Steffens Copy Share Image
I would like to say, historically, from the very beginning, our people have time and again expressed the need for people to… — Leonard Peltier 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
“Although a democratic government is founded upon a very simple and natural principle, it always presupposes the existence of a high degree… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“From October 2003, I uncovered the following quote, which fully expressed the climate of fear of the time --- "Any democratic government,… — W. Montgomery 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
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
If when I die, I am still a dictator, I will certainly go down into the oblivion of all dictators. If, on… — Chiang Kai-shek 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
“Certainly, I believed that our democratic system of government was the best thing going. I was a flag-waver from way back. I… — Richard Cezar Copy Share Image
I believe Tunisia and Egypt should look to Turkey and see what not to do. Turkey seems to be a secular and… — Burhan Sonmez 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
The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
Famines are easy to prevent if there is a serious effort to do so, and a democratic government, facing elections and criticisms… — Amartya Sen 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
“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
When democratic governments create economic calamity, free markets get the blame. — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
The revolution has no time for elections. There is no more democratic government in Latin America than the revolutionary government. — Fidel Castro 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
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
Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long… — Samuel Eliot Morison 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
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