Liberty Quotes - Daily Email History

"The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians."

~ Benjamin Disraeli  

"The right to be let alone is the underlying
principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights."

~ Erwin N. Griswold  

"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe... till we come to the hard bottom of rocks in place, which we can call reality."

~ Henry David Thoreau  

"Democracy is talking itself to death. The people do not know what they want; they do not know what is the best for them. There is too much foolishness, too much lost motion. I have stopped the talk and the nonsense. I am a man of action. Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day."

~ Benito Mussolini  

"Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

~ James Russell Lowell  

"Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy."

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson  

"All lawful authority comes from God to the people."

~ Constitution of the Irish Free State  

"I know that most men -- not only those considered clever,
but even those who are very clever and capable of understanding
most difficult scientific, mathematical, or philosophic, problems --
can seldom discern even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such
as obliges them to admit the falsity of conclusions they have formed,
perhaps with much difficulty -- conclusions of which they are proud,
which they have taught to others, and on which they have built their lives."

~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi  

"Freedom has a thousand charms to show,
That slaves, howe'er contented, never know."

~ William Cowper  

"Envy is the basis of Democracy."

~ Bertrand Russell  

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning
of the people by the people for the people."

~ Oscar Wilde  

"Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero."

~ Thomas Carlyle  

"The evil of democracy is not the triumph of quantity,
but the triumph of bad quality."

~ Guido De Ruggiero  

"It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting."

~ Tom Stoppard  

"As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?"

~ William Marcy Tweed