Democracy Quote by Henry A. Wallace

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic…

— Henry A. Wallace

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton

It is one of the saddest spectacles of our time to see a great democratic movement support a policy which must lead to the…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

My hope is that we revive 'monopoly' as a core piece of political rhetoric that broadly denotes dominant firms with pernicious powers.

— Franklin Foer

Competition drives growth in the end as opposed to monopolies.

— Dido Harding

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

— Max Boot

Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

While control is needed, and perfectly warranted, our bias should be clear up front: Monopolies are not justified by theory; they should be permitted…

— Lawrence Lessig

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The great monopoly in this country is the money monopoly. So long as it exists, our old variety of freedom and individual energy of…

— Woodrow Wilson

Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able…

— H. L. Mencken