Democracy Quote by Anthony Eden Download Open image “Drift is the demon of democracy.” — Anthony Eden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Demon
“If leadership, ownership, and governance do not share a common passion around the purpose, it will not last. Drift is only one transition—or crisis—away.” — Becca Spradlin, Lead On Mission Copy Share Image
“democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion” — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
Democracy is not a static thing. It is an everlasting march. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning. — Anna Paulina Luna Copy Share Image
Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil. — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“That which now calls itself democracy differs from older forms of government solely in that it drives with new horses: the streets are still… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
If we had allowed things to drift, everything would have gone from bad to worse. Nasser would have become a kind of Moslem Mussolini,… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
You may gain temporary appeasement by a policy of concession to violence, but you do not gain lasting peace that way. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We have many times led Europe in the fight for freedom. It would be an ignoble end to our long history if we tamely… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
We cannot agree that an act of plunder which threatens the livelihood of many nations should be allowed to succeed. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
“... if one hasn't been through, as our people mercifully did not go through, the horrors of an occupation by a foreign power, you… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Everyone is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty. — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
It is a common happening that those in power, as their tenure of office continues, find themselves less and less able to contemplate relinquishing… — Anthony Eden Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
