Consequences Quote by Damian Green

Governments, whether they're dictatorships or democracies, reflect the people. When the people get fed up, they throw them out.

— Ron Paul

Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the…

— Charles Koch

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in spirit and energy it awakens.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big government squashes the human spirit

— Dennis Prager

But the most deplorable effect of all, is that diminution of attachment and reverence, which steals into the hearts of the people, towards a…

— James Madison

“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

One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government...is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness.…

— C. Wright Mills

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their…

— Barack Obama

Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result…

— Janice Rogers Brown

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

— Anna Paulina Luna