Advantage Quote by Benjamin Disraeli

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

— Don Marquis

Those who have not, and live in want, are a menace, Ridden with envy and fooled by demagogues.

— Euripides

In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

— Lazare Carnot

Such is the nature of crowds: either they are humble and servile or arrogant and dominating. They are incapable of making moderate use of…

— Livy

Freedom of press and freedom of speech: What a blessing for a country while in the hands of honest, patriotic men; what a curse…

— William J. H. Boetcker

Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are…

— Aristotle

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

— George Washington

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Any kind of dictatorship, I'm uneasy. I just don't like dictators. I don't like crowds. I don't like hordes, and I don't like other…

— Frank Capra

Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.

— Mahatma Gandhi

One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and…

— Salman Rushdie

One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot…

— George Washington