Quotes Library

May 4, 2025

There is nothing more tyrannical than a strong popular feeling among a democratic people.

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882), English novelist, North America (1862), Jay p.369

If you can’t pick an example from your own nation’s history, you really are too ignorant for the job.

Indeed, there is the embryo of tyranny in every democracy. Witness the internment in both the United States and Canada of their own citizens of Japanese origin during the Second World War—without evidence of any disloyalty, without trial, without appeal.

Politics & Politicians

More Quotes

March 29, 2025
March 29, 2025
Human Nature
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
March 20, 2025
March 20, 2025
Governance
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
August 20, 2025
August 20, 2025
Society
We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us.
1…3839404142…122
Page 40 of 122