Frases sobre Democracia

For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.
Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Source: Aurora Leigh (bk. 4)

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France

And wrinkles, the d--d dem
ocrats, won't flatter.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Don Juan (canto X, st. XXIV)

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the trees

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .
Author: Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the trees

Caesarism is democracy without liberty. [Fr., Le Cesarisme, c'est la democratie sans la liberte.]
Author: Taxile Delord
Source: Tremendous Trifles--Wind and the Trees

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
Source: Lothair (ch. XVII)

Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.
Author: Charles Fletcher Dole
Source: The Spirit of Democracy

Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Author: John Dryden
Source: Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227)

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: Among My Books--New England Two Centuries Ago

Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: The Biglow Papers (series 2, no. 7)

To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."
Author: Lycurgus
Source: in Plutarch's "Apophthegms of Kings and Great Commanders"

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.
Author: Thomas Babington Macaulay
Source: History (vol. I, p. 20)

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Source: Children of Light and Children of Darkness (foreward)

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Man and Superman

All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Source: in a speech in Albany

It's not the voting that's democracy, it's the counting.
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Source: in a speech in Albany

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Source: in a speech in Albany

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
Author: Alfred Emanuel Smith
Source: in a speech in Albany

Thunder on! Stride on! Democracy. Strike with vengeful strokes.
Author: Walt Whitman
Source: Drum-Taps--Rise O Days From Your Fathomless Deep (no. 3)

Of democracy, only the shoemaker can make the shoe. Only the wearer can tell if it fits.
Author: David Spitz
Source: None

Communism is not the opposite of democracy. Communism and capitalism are economic systems. Democracy and totalitarianism are political systems. There are democratic communists and totalitarian capitalists.
Author: David Spitz
Source: None

Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Author: John Cotton
Source: None

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Source: None

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Author: Gilbert K. Chesterton
Source: None

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.
Author: Walter Winchell
Source: None

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.
Author: Norman Cousins
Source: None

... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None

Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
Source: None

Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None

In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not to listen.
Author: G. Norman Collie
Source: None

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
Author: Harry Emerson Fosdick
Source: None

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
Source: None

Democracy ... is a system of self-determination. It's the right to make the wrong choice.
Author: John Patrick
Source: None

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Author: James Russell Lowell
Source: None

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Author: Abraham Lincoln
Source: None

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: None

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