Democracy Quote by Garry Wills Download Open image “If a nation wishes, it can have both free elections and slavery.” — Garry Wills ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Election Free elections Ifs Nations Slavery Wish
We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
Since outright slavery has been discredited, "democracy" is the only remaining rationale for state compulsion that most people will accept. — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
“The people of England regards itself as free; but it is grossly mistaken; it is free only during the election of members of parliament.… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Our political problem now is, "Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?" — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
One cannot have a trade union or a democratic election without freedom of speech, freedom of association and assembly. Without a democratic election, whereby… — George Meany Copy Share Image
There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose? — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I have been an outsider in journalism and in the academy, because I never fully belonged to any of them. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
“You will hear everlastingly, in all discussions about newspapers, companies, aristocracies, or party politics, this argument that the rich man cannot be bribed. The… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
The leader is one who mobilizes others toward a goal shared by leader and followers. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require. — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security… — Garry Wills Copy Share Image
To "bear arms" is, in itself, a military term. One does not bear arms against a rabbit. — Garry Wills 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