Ignorant Quote by James Monroe

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising the sovereignty.…

— James Monroe

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue…

— Samuel Adams

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because…

— Tariq Ali

Under a democratical government the citizens exercise the powers of sovereignty; and those powers will be first abused, and afterwards lost, if they are…

— Edward Gibbon

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely…

— Terry Eagleton

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

The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of…

— Winston Churchill

“No nation, whatever its power, can be called great when it imposes tyranny upon its citizens—worse, upon people it claims as its citizens, not”

— Ada Palmer

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but…

— Jean Bodin

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

— Taylor Caldwell

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free.

— Angelina Grimke