Thought for Today

"The deadliest foe of democracy is not autocracy but liberty frenzied."

~~~~~ Otto Hermann Kahn

Thought for Today

"The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy."

~~~~~ Charles de Montesquieu

Thought for Today

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

~~~~~ Robert M. Hutchins

Thought for Today

"People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway."

~~~~~ Simeon Strunsky

Thought for Today

"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."

~~~~~ Fisher Ames

Thought for Today

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

~~~~~ Robert M. Hutchins

Thought for Today

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."

~~~~~ Charles Bukowski

Thought for Today

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom."

~~~~~ Friedrich August von Hayek

Thought for Today

"Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens."

~~~~~ William Beveridge

Thought for Today

"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people."

~~~~~ Edmund Burke

Thought for Today

"I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything."

~~~~~ Taki Theodoracopulos

Thought for Today

"The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens."

~~~~~ Alexis de Tocqueville

Thought for Today

"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."

~~~~~ Fisher Ames

Thought for Today

"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity."

~~~~~ Irving Kristol

Thought for Today

"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."

~~~~~ Robert M. Hutchins

Thought for Today

"Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote."

~~~~ George Jean Nathan

"Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president."

~~~~~ Johnny Carson

Prophetic words!

Thought for Today

"Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for."

~~~~~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Thought for Today

"Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."

~~~~~~~ Ronald Reagan

Thought for Today

"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury."

~~~~~ Alexander Tyler, 18th century Scottish historian