Democracies Quote by James F. Cooper

It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men…

— James F. Cooper

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

— Joseph Sobran

[Tyranny is] to compel men not to think as they do, to compel men to express thoughts that are not their own.

— Milovan ?ilas

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

— Henry Ward Beecher

The man for whom the law exists - the man of forms, the conservative - is a tame man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his…

— Thomas Jefferson

It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted…

— Allan Bloom

And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a…

— James Harrington

Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one…

— Plato

It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Laws are often made by fools, and even more often by men who fail in equity because they hate equality: but always by men,…

— Michel de Montaigne