Democratic Quote by Saul Bellow

“I went back to de Tocqueville. After studying the French Revolution, he wrote that revolts tend to start not in places where conditions are…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“A general rule is drawn which never or rarely fails: that he who is the cause of another becoming powerful is ruined; because that…

— W.K. Marriott

“French writer Alexis de Tocqueville captured this sentiment, from a foreigner’s perspective, writing in 1831 after a tour of the nascent country that “The…

— Elizabeth H. Bradley

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like…

— Hannah Arendt

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we…

— Judy LaMarsh

“The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world – no matter how his affairs may prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted,…

— Joseph Campbell

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

Where the vivacity of the intellect and the strength of the passions exceed the development of the moral faculties the character is likely to…

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for…

— David Rakoff

It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition…

— Samuel Johnson

“He knows that in leadership cleverness is not as important as content, that charisma and dash are not as vital as character and doctrine.”

— Neal A. Maxwell

“Leaders are often forced to make determinations they find distasteful for the good of the people they serve.”

— Joelle Charbonneau