First class Quote by Alexander Hamilton

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and the well-born; the other the mass of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

Unless the people can choose their leaders and rulers, and can revoke their choice at intervals long enough to test their measuresby results, the…

— George Bernard Shaw

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted,…

— Walter Lippmann

All communities divide themselves into the few and the many. The first are the rich and well born, the other the mass of the…

— Alexander Hamilton

“Now, these eager and apprehensive men of small property constitute the class which is constantly increased by the equality of conditions. Hence, in democratic…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If you get to a point where the existing institutions will not bend to the popular will, you have to eliminate the institutions.

— Noam Chomsky

To decide once every few years which members of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament-this is the real…

— Vladimir Lenin

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely…

— Grover Cleveland

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what…

— Rebecca MacKinnon