Democracy as we conceive it in the US will not survive in Britain or France after the war
Democracy Quotes
I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty, or civilization, or both.
Justice delayed is democracy denied.
I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilization would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong, military government, and liberty would perish.
Democracy: The crude leading the crud.
A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else’s self-esteem.
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
One of the worst forms of government is a pure democracy, that is, one in which the citizens enact and administer the laws directly. Such a government is helpless against the mischiefs of faction.
The fashionable concentration on democracy as the main value threatened is not without danger. It is largely responsible for the misleading and unfounded belief that, so long as the ultimate source of power is the will of the majority, the power cannot be arbitrary… it is not the source but the limitation of power which […]
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave.
