Absolutes Quote by Lord Acton

Federalism is the best curb on democracy. [It] assigns limited powers to the central government. Thereby all power is limited. It excludes absolute power…

— Lord Acton

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms…

— Edmund Burke

One of the signs that things are going reasonably well for democracy is that we have the states where they're closer to the people.…

— Condoleezza Rice

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

Democracy is a system that gives people a chance to elect rascals of their own choice.

— Doug Larson

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist…

— Alex Tabarrok