Democracy Quote by Timothy D. Snyder Download Open image “Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.” — Timothy D. Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Democracy Exist Government History Like Politics Rise Rise and fall
In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share
Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils,… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Republics, one after another . . . have perished from a want of intelligence and virtue in the masses of the people. . . . — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When a government lasts a long while, it deteriorates by insensible degrees. Republics end through luxury, monarchies through poverty. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism… — Earl Warren Copy Share Image
Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny;… — Simon Bolivar Copy Share Image
This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails. — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not. — Anna Howard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of 'our institutions' unless you are… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
If the members of parliament no longer consider themselves mandatories of the taxpayers but deputies of those receiving salaries, wages, subsidies, doles, and other… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There is plenty of time for Republicans to have a Macaca moment. But right now, as of October 17, 2014, the Republican Senate candidates… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Vote for Donald Trump. You're going to see something and you'll be so happy, you'll be so thrilled. This [presidential] election is about every… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If you believe in democracy, why shouldn't you know what the government is doing? — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Failure to find a way to incorporate political Islam in democracy, however uncomfortable its ideology is for secular liberals, will mean we have given… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
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