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"Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness."
"You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."
"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
Explore more quotes by James Bovard
"Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people."
"I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it."
"Some politicians are aware of the Bill of Rights. It seems that the opposition party is far more likely to invoke it, to wave it in the air, this is what we saw from a lot of republicans during the Clinton Administration, and we are seeing the same from Democrats under Bush."
"The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule."
"The more expansive government is, the more perils people face in daily lives, be it from IRS agents or from child support services, or from other agencies that often have little or no legal restraints on their power."
"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."
"Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends."
"With attention deficit democracy, I am trying to wake up people to how the combination of mass ignorance, fear mongering by the government, and lying politicians is putting our entire system of government to a death spiral."
"There are a lot of benefits representative of government and it is far better than any type of dictatorial system and it is far better than a one-man rule situation."
"It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing."
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