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Evils from democracy

The evils we experience flow from the excess of democracy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on July 22, 2019Categories democracyTags Elbridge Gerry

Oppression destroys society

The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 12, 2019Categories democracyTags Thomas Jefferson

Democracy vs. liberty

Democracy and liberty are not the same. Democracy is little more than mob rule, while liberty refers to the sovereignty of the individual.

Author Greg RavenPosted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019Categories democracy, libertyTags Walter E. Williams

The root of democracy

Envy is the basis of Democracy.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 12, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Bertrand Russell

Democracy equals brute force

[N]o one’s ever been able to show me any difference between democracy and brute force. It’s just a majority ganging up on a minority with the minority giving in to avoid getting massacred.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 9, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags L. Neil Smith

Getting back on the road to liberty

I can’t think of anything that would do more toward putting us back on the road to liberty and personal responsibility than for the average American, and for the news media, to come to the understanding that we are not a democracy, nor were we supposed to be.

Author Greg RavenPosted on November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Neal Boortz

Democracy is a threat to the American republic

The media’s daily outbursts about the danger to democracy posed by the current administration, while highly amusing, omit a key piece of information. The United States is not a democracy; the United States is a republic.
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Author Greg RavenPosted on March 15, 2017November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories Constitution, democracyTags Paul Pauker

Democracy equals mob rule

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Author Greg RavenPosted on September 9, 2016February 11, 2021Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Unknown

Liberty under democracies

Liberty has never lasted long in a democracy, nor has it ever ended in anything better than despotism.

Author Greg RavenPosted on August 26, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Fisher Ames

From democracy to anarchy

In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature.

Author Greg RavenPosted on June 13, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags James Madison

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