Action Quote by Raya Dunayevskaya

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the…

— Moses Finley

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their…

— Walter E. Williams

Democracy was always a gamble. In 1776, the founders rejected the old idea that government should be based on hierarchies according to wealth or…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“Democracy is a pretty word. Democracy is a captivating magic. The oppressed classes always wanted and the oppressing ones always promised a democracy. But…

— Todor Bombov

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they…

— Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism

— Ronald Reagan

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy as a system has evolved into something that Thomas Jefferson didn't anticipate.

— Hunter S. Thompson

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who…

— George Sand

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of…

— Walt Whitman

Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica…

— Gore Vidal