Democracy Quote by Timothy Shah

“It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does.”

— Eric Robert Morse

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

“Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the…

— Mark R. Levin

“No one will seek the highest [things] if he believes that there is no truth, that nothing is his fault, and that government will…

— James V. Schall

“Beyond the nation, we acknowledge those eternal and immutable principles in the name of which one must be ready to fight and die, subordinating…

— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives…

— Ben Carson

“Now to what higher object, to what greater character, can any mortal aspire than to be possessed of all this knowledge, well digested and…

— John Adams

“The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be…

— Gene Sharp

“We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but members of a society founded upon revolution. Revolution is our obligation: our hope…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

“But a democracy can only obtain truth as the result of experience, and many nations may forfeit their existence whilst they are awaiting the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Government is the perfect portrayer of the accuracy of the axiom that if you lie big enough, long enough, the lie becomes the “truth.”

— Neale Donald Walsch