Assault Quote by Noam Chomsky

Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It's a band of power-driven people.

— Wole Soyinka

It [concentration of wealth and power] has been a menace to . . . American democracy.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The more power a government has the more it can act arbitrarily according to the whims and desires of the elite, and the more…

— Rudolph Rummel

In war, too, the discretionary power of the Executive is extended; its influence in dealing out offices, honors, and emoluments is multiplied; and all…

— James Madison

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton

Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

Worldwide, the twentieth century has seen the rise of extraordinary concentrations of economic and political power - evoking the people as the source of…

— Thomas L. Dumm

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

— Mahathir Mohamad

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.

— Alexander Hamilton

Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.

— John Hospers