Democracy Quote by Juan Guaido

“Being mad, he failed to take into account the scheming of irresponsible politicians. Being mad, he believed that other governments would act in accordance…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary…

— Karl Marx

The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there…

— Simon Bolivar

“The population of his feelings Could not be governed By the authorities He had reasons why Reason disobeyed him And voted him out of…

— Edward Hirsch

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He…

— Winston Churchill

No authoritarian leader cedes power easily or turns it over to bodies he cannot control.

— Stephen Kinzer

It's important to remember that a dictator will not freely relinquish power after having hijacked the constitution and ruled with threats and promises. Sometimes…

— Juan Guaido

He who dethrones the idea of law, bids chaos welcome in its stead.

— Horace Mann

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really…

— Winston Churchill

He [Deng Xiaoping] said that he did not understand why we failed to grasp that the alternative was not democracy, but total chaos and…

— Henry A. Kissinger

A fierce and principled opposition stops a fat, complacent government from making stupid mistakes.

— Peter Hitchens

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins…

— Adolf Hitler