Challenges Quote by Condoleezza Rice

“Still, Tocqueville knew that the governing despotism of which he wrote, and which can accurately and broadly be characterized as utopianism, is, for free…

— Mark R. Levin

“What Tocqueville did not consider was how long such a government would remain in the hands of benevolent despots when it would be so…

— Friedrich Hayek

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones

In the relations of a weak Government and a rebellious people there comes a time when every act of the authorities exasperates the masses,…

— John Reed

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

The common people feel themselves oppressed by the grasping of some, and their vanity is flattered by others. Fired with evil passions, they are…

— Polybius

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them

— Anonymous

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types…

— Simon Mainwaring

When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning.

— Anna Paulina Luna

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang

“Governments strong enough to protect individuals against the violence of their fellows make possible the evolution of an increasingly complex order of spontaneous and…

— Friedrich A. Hayek