Democracy Quote by John Micklethwait

“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”

— George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— George Bernard Shaw

“The Pauline idea of inclusive election—the idea that the elect are chosen instruments through whom God’s mercy will eventually reach those who have stumbled—sets…

— Thomas Talbott

“Concerns about democracy’s future are better directed elsewhere, John Paul argues, for if “there is no ultimate truth to guide and direct political activity,…

— George Weigel

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we…

— Jacques Barzun

“The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his…

— C.S. Lewis

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Paul's face grew serious. 'I think whenever a people has enormous resources, it is easy for them to call themselves democratic. I think of…

— Tracy Kidder

“Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own a paper that is the…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“[Paul] has no intention to instruct the Christian community about the task and responsibility of government. His entire concern is with the responsibility of…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I give my vote for Mr. Johnson to fill that great and arduous post. And I hereby declare that I make a total surrender…

— Lord Chesterfield

“Politicians tend only to like democracy when it is to their personal advantage (From LONE WOLF, p.50)”

— Len Webster