Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Democracy. Show all posts

G.K. Chesterton on Democracy and the Origins of Man

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , , | Posted On Monday, December 22, 2014 at 5:23 AM

“The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal; and it is right; for if they were not created equal, they were certainly evolved unequal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man.”

G.K. Chesterton


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John Winthrop on Democracy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Thursday, June 6, 2013 at 6:30 AM

“A democracy is, amongst civil nations, accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.”

John Winthrop


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Fisher Ames on Democracy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Monday, November 12, 2012 at 7:00 AM

"The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty"
Fisher Ames
(1758-1808)


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John Witherspoon on Democracy

Posted by Bluegrass Endurance | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM

"Pure democracy cannot subsist long nor be carried far into the departments of state - it is very subject to caprice and the madness of popular rage."
John Witherspoon


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John Adams on Democracy

Posted by Andrew K. | Labels: , | Posted On Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4:30 AM

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

John Adams


 
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