Several centuries ago the greatest writer in history described the two most menacing clouds that hang over human government and human society as "malice domestic and fierce foreign war." We are not rid of these dangers but we can summon our intelligence to meet them....
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
When states are democratically governed according to law, there are no demagogues, and the best citizens are securely in the saddle; but where the laws are not sovereign, there you find demagogues. The people become a monarch... such people, in its role as a monarch,...
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Aristotle
Demagogues and agitators are very unpleasant but they are incidents to a free and constitutional country and you must put up with these inconveniences or do without many important advantages.
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Benjamin Disraeli
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
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Macaulay
Every one that was in distress and every one that was in debt and every one that was discontented gathered themselves unto him and he became a captain over them.
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I Samuel
More Quotes By Macaulay
People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.
The art of making much show with little substance.
A good constitution is infinitely better than the best despot.
In every age the vilest specimens of human nature are to be found among demagogues.
