Country Quote by Don Marquis

The demagogue is usually sly,a detractor of others, a professor of humility and disinterestedness, a great stickler for equality as respects all above him,…

— Anonymous

Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant, they are incidental to a free and constitutional country, and you must put up with these inconveniences or…

— Benjamin Disraeli

The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of the demagogue,…

— H. L. Mencken

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

“When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the…

— Aristotle

In a Democracy, look how many Demagogs that is how many powerful Orators there are with the people.

— Thomas Hobbes

In this statement, my Scipio, I build on your own admirable definition, that there can be no community, properly so called, unless it be…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Rebels and dissidents challenge the complacent belief in a just world, and they are usually denigrated for their efforts.

— Carol Tavris

Those who disagree with the dictator's plan have no other means to carry on than to defeat the despot by force of arms.

— Ludwig von Mises

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator,…

— George Bernard Shaw

Dictating to dictators doesn't work; they are congenitally delusional about their own indispensability.

— Joe Klein