Democracy Quote by G.K. Chesterton Download Open image ““tradition is only democracy extended through time.”” — G.K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Time
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“I have never been able to understand where people got the idea that democracy was in some way opposed to tradition. It is obvious… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition is only democracy extended through time; it may be defined as an extension of the franchise. Tradition means giving votes to the most… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tradition is not good simply because it is tradition. It is for what it has given us and only so long as an alternative… — Friedrich A. Hayek Copy Share Image
“Now naturally, like many of us, I have a reluctance to change too much of the old ways. But there is no virtue at… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
“Tradition is a fragile thing in a culture built entirely on the memories of the elders.” — Alice Albinia Copy Share Image
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Tradition makes people want to cling to their identity. Change is the enemy.” — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The mass of men have been forced to be gay about the little things, but sad about the big ones. Nevertheless (I offer my… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“ask yourself how many people you have met who grumbled at a thing as incurable, and how many who attacked it as curable? How… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Internationalism is in any case hostile to democracy….The only purely popular government is local, and founded on local knowledge. The citizens can rule the… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was a short railway official travelling up to the terminus, three fairly short market-gardeners picked up two stations afterwards, one very short widow… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Man, by a blind instinct, knew that if once things were wildly questioned, reason could be questioned first. The authority of priests to absolve,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act… — G.K. Chesterton 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
