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For it is clear that in a monarchy, where the person who executes the laws holds himself above them, less virtue is required than in a popular government, where the person who executes the laws is aware that he himself is subject to them and that he will feel their weight.
[Car il est clair que, dans une monarchie, où celui qui fait exécuter les loix se juge au-dessus des loix, on a besoin de moins de vertu que dans un gouvernement populaire, où celui qui fait exécuter les loix, sent qu’il y est soumis lui-même, & qu’il en portera le poids.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Stewart (2018)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/83090/
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ambrosebierce #devilsdictionary #ballot #democracy #majority #minority #populargovernment #popularopinion #tyrannyofthemajority #voting
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A quotation from Ambrose Bierce
BALLOT, n. A simple device by which a majority proves to a minority the folly of resistance. Many worthy persons of imperfect thinking apparatus believe that majorities govern through some inherent right; and minorities submit, not because they must, but because they ought.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Ballot,” “Devil’s Dictionary” column, San Francisco Wasp (1881-04-23)More about this quote: wist.info/bierce-ambrose/82483…
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There need not be much integrity for a monarchical or despotic government to maintain or sustain itself. The force of the laws in the one, and the prince’s ever-raised arm in the other, can rule or contain the whole. But in a popular state there must be an additional spring, which is VIRTUE.
[Il ne faut pas beaucoup de probité, pour qu’un gouvernement monarchique, ou un gouvernement despotique, se maintiennent ou se soutiennent. La force des loix dans l’un, le bras du prince toujours levé dans l’autre, reglent ou contiennent tout. Mais, dans un état populaire, il faut un ressort de plus, qui est la VERTU.]Charles-Lewis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) French political philosopher
Spirit of Laws [The Spirit of the Laws; De l’esprit des lois], Book 3, ch. 3 (3.3) (1748) [tr. Cohler/Miller/Stone (1989)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montesquieu/82282/
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as “My God! How did we get in this mess!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Glory Road, ch. 17 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/81…
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as “My God! How did we get in this mess!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Glory Road, ch. 17 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/81…
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as “My God! How did we get in this mess!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Glory Road, ch. 17 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/81…
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as “My God! How did we get in this mess!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Glory Road, ch. 17 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/81…
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Vox Populi, Vox Dei translates as “My God! How did we get in this mess!”
Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
Glory Road, ch. 17 (1963)More about this quote: wist.info/heinlein-robert-a/81…
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to CharlemagneSourcing, notes: wist.info/alcuin/78553/
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to CharlemagneSourcing, notes: wist.info/alcuin/78553/
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to CharlemagneSourcing, notes: wist.info/alcuin/78553/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alcuin #voxpopuli #divineguidance #divinepurpose #divinewill #God #people #populace #populargovernment #popularopinion #public #publicopinion #democracy
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to CharlemagneSourcing, notes: wist.info/alcuin/78553/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alcuin #voxpopuli #divineguidance #divinepurpose #divinewill #God #people #populace #populargovernment #popularopinion #public #publicopinion #democracy
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The voice of the people is the voice of God.
[Vox populi, vox Dei.]Alcuin of York (c. 735-804) Anglo-Latin scholar, clergyman, poet, teacher [Flaccus Albinus Alcuinus, Ealhwine, Alhwin, or Alchoin]
Letter (AD 798) to CharlemagneSourcing, notes: wist.info/alcuin/78553/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alcuin #voxpopuli #divineguidance #divinepurpose #divinewill #God #people #populace #populargovernment #popularopinion #public #publicopinion #democracy
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #anarchy, #authoritarianism #checksandbalances #Constitution #democracy #despotism #government #majority #mobrule #populargovernment #popularopinion #sovereignty #tyranny
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
#quote #quotes #quotation #anarchy, #authoritarianism #checksandbalances #Constitution #democracy #despotism #government #majority #mobrule #populargovernment #popularopinion #sovereignty #tyranny
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A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American lawyer, politician, US President (1861-65)
Speech (1861-03-04), Inaugural Address, Washington, D. C.Sourcing, notes: wist.info/lincoln-abraham/2539…
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A quotation from Ames, Fisher:
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Monarchy is like a sleek craft, it sails along well until some bumbling captain runs it into the rocks. Democracy, on the other hand, is like a raft. It never goes down but, dammit, your feet are always wet.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/ames-fisher/33168/#quote #quotes #quotation #aristocracy #autocracy #compromise #democracy #dictatorship #elections #meme #monarchy #politics #populargovernment #republic