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“every leader who strived for power somehow ended up corrupted in the process.”

— Morgan Rice

“...decisions were often made because of ideology and politics. As a result many wrong-headed actions were taken, ones that did not solve the problem…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“These: men had no hope of, nor interest in, making the world safe for democracy, or of destroying evil. They were vitally concerned with…

— T. R. Fehrenbach

“If nothing else, all these years as a spy had taught her something important--regimes changed. Ideals changed. There was no such thing as an…

— Kate Cross

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

— Aldous Huxley

“The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his…

— C.S. Lewis

“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.”

— Daniel Nayeri

“Eventually, in an historic feat of compromise, democracy was restored by the abolition of elections..”

— Louis de Bernières

“As bureaucracies accumulate power, they become immune to their own mistakes.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“He realized, perhaps more fully than anyone in his century, that the nature of man made it inevitable that a government would sooner or…

— Dan Sisson

“was calculated to kill off democracy.”

— Roger Scruton