Democracy Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality, for how we live is so far…

— Anonymous

Many have dreamed up republics and principalities that have never in truth been known to exist; the gulf between how one should live and…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . .

— Horace Mann

Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.

— Timothy D. Snyder

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

— Max Muller

The absence of utopianism in the Constitution, law, and traditional political culture has been ... important in limiting expectations concerning what can be achieved…

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

I have indeed two great measures at heart, without which no republic can maintain itself in strength: 1. That of general education, to enable…

— Thomas Jefferson

“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood…

— Timothy Snyder

Nothing becomes reality in the political life of a nation that was not present in its literature as spirit.

— Hugo von Hofmannsthal

The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I mean, republics have fallen because of Praetorian Guard mentality where government officials get very arrogant, they identify the national interest with their own…

— William Barr