America Quote by John Leo

“In the final analysis, what is it that we call popular, democratic power? Beyond the expressed will of the people, as it is supposedly…

— Anonymous

What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted,…

— Walter Lippmann

You can't always say what's popular and you ought to go with it. I think that's why the founders were concerned about direct democracy.…

— Jeff Flake

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

— Warren G. Harding

Politics is the means by which the will of the few becomes the will of the many.

— Howard W. Koch

The will of a majority is the will of a rabble. Progressive democracy is incompatable with liberty.

— John C. Calhoun

The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in Government than in politics. The growing…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

By playing down to the idea of the common man, dogmatic political authority exploits him... So the ideal of innate aristocracy of which hour…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant,…

— Michel Foucault

“As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were…

— James Truslow Adams

Nobody who's thought about politics or democracy over the thousands of years that people have been thinking about democracy hasn't come up against the…

— Howard Jacobson

“Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin’s ‘democratic centralism’.…

— Paul Johnson