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  • The purpose of democracy - supplanting old belief in the necessary absoluteness of establish'd dynastic rulership, temporal, ecclesiastical, and scholastic, as furnishing the only security against chaos, crime, and ignorance - is, through many transmigrations, and amid endless ridicules, arguments, and ostensible failures
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Democracy Quotes
  • I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , America Quotes , Democracy Quotes
  • Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Plato Quotes , Democracy Quotes , Idlers Quotes