Democratic Government Quotes

• Un gobierno sabio y frugal, que impida a los hombres perjudicarse unos a otros, que los deje libres para regular sus propias actividades de industria y mejora, y que no le quite al trabajo el pan que se ha ganado. Esta es la suma del buen gobierno, y esto es necesario para cerrar el círculo de nuestras felicidades.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sabios, Sabiduría, Hombres

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). "Jefferson sobre la libertad: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way", p.65, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Un gobierno democrático es el único en el que quienes votan a favor de un impuesto pueden eludir la obligación de pagarlo.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Gobierno, Política, Fiscalidad

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). "Democracy in America", p.708, Regnery Publishing

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• Secrecy and a free, democratic government don't mix.

  Harry S. Truman

  Government, Presidential, Democracy

  Quoted in Merle Miller, Plain Speaking (1974). This from the man who presided over the creation of CIA.

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• Un gobierno democrático que no respeta ningún límite a su poder es una bomba de relojería, a la espera de destruir los derechos para cuya protección fue creado.

  James Bovard

  Rights, Government, Waiting

  James Bovard (2015). “Attention Deficit Democracy”, p.10, Macmillan

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• The work of democratic government is routinely concerned with matters defined as troubles. In "The Presidency and the Press" I make the point, familiar to anyone who has flown about the world much, that the best quick test of the political nature of a regime is to read the local papers on arrival. If they are filled with bad news, you have landed in a libertarian society of some sort. If, on the other hand, the press is filled with good news, it is a fair bet that the jails will be filled with good men.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Men, Hands, Jail

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• ...los gobiernos, incluidos los gobiernos libres y democráticos, no son realmente amigos de la libertad y la democracia. Aborrecen cualquier estado de derecho que limite sus poderes y su inclinación por la ingeniería social.

  George Jonas

  Government, Engineering, Law

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• The United States has given frequent and enthusiastic support to the overthrow of democracy in favor of "investor friendly" regimes. The World Bank, IMF, and private banks have consistently lavished huge sums on terror regimes, following their displacement of democratic governments, and a number of quantitative studies have shown a systematic positive relationship between U.S. and IMF / World Bank aid to countries and their violations of human rights.

  Edward S. Herman

  Country, Government, Violation Of Human Rights

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• Cuando la gente trata la corrupción como una parte rutinaria del proceso, tenemos algo mucho peor que una fechoría o un fallo moral. Tenemos un cáncer político que genera cinismo sobre el gobierno democrático e infecta a toda la sociedad.

  Edward Brooke

  Cáncer, Gobierno, Personas

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• Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Government, Discipline, People

  "Jeane Kirkpatrick". www.economist.com. 19 de diciembre de 2006.

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• The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.

  Peter Boettke

  Government, Cost, Benefits

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• The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Government, Average, People

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race”, p.174, Oxford University Press

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• Unemployment is a reproach to a democratic government.

  Joan Robinson

  Government, Unemployment, Democratic

  British Association for the Advancement of Science. Section F (Economics), Joan Robinson (1973). “After Keynes: Papers Presented to Section F (Economics) at the 1972 Annual Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science”, Wiley-Blackwell

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• Authoritarianism is not pretending anymore to be a real alternative to democracy, but we can see many more authoritarian practices and styles basically being smuggled into democratic governments.

  Ivan Krastev

  Real, Government, Practice

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• No tengo la menor duda de que, si aquí tuviéramos un gobierno puramente democrático, el efecto sería el mismo. O bien los pobres saquearían a los ricos, y la civilización perecería; o bien el orden y la propiedad serían salvados por un fuerte gobierno militar, y la libertad perecería.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strong, Military, Order

  "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" edited by Thomas Pinney, Vol. 6, p. 94, 1981.

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• A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

  Kenneth E. Boulding

  Government, Unseen, World

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• The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Government, Law, Pillars

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.39, VM eBooks

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• Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

  Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

  Peace, Errors, Government

  "The Arms Race". Book by Philip Noel-Baker, 1958.

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• The big problem for a democratic government - democrat with a small "d" - is how to hold down government spending.

  Milton Friedman

  Government, Problem, Bigs

  Fuente: www.foxnews.com

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• To my mind, there is a solution which has to do with democracy, because democratic governments are subject to the will of the people. So, if the people will it, you can actually create international institutions through the democratic states.

  George Soros

  Government, People, Mind

  Interview with Mark Shapiro, September 05, 2000.

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• Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or certain. Nor must we forget that there has often been much more cultural and spiritual freedom under an autocratic rule than under some democracies and it is at least conceivable that under the government of a very homogeneous and doctrinaire majority democratic government might be as oppressive as the worst dictatorship.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Spiritual, Mean, Government

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• Cuando los gobiernos democráticos provocan una calamidad económica, la culpa es del libre mercado.

  Jack Kemp

  Gobierno, Libertad, Libertario

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• Lo que hace el público no es expresar sus opiniones, sino alinearse a favor o en contra de una propuesta. Si se acepta esa teoría, debemos abandonar la noción de que el gobierno democrático puede ser la expresión directa de la voluntad del pueblo. Debemos abandonar la noción de que el pueblo gobierna. En su lugar, debemos adoptar la teoría de que, mediante sus movilizaciones ocasionales como mayoría, el pueblo apoya o se opone a los individuos que realmente gobiernan. Debemos decir que la voluntad popular no dirige continuamente, sino que interviene ocasionalmente.

  Walter Lippmann

  Government, Expression, People

  "The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy".

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• La razón por la que las sociedades con gobiernos democráticos son mejores lugares para vivir que sus alternativas no se debe a alguna bondad intrínseca a la democracia, sino a que su desesperada ineficacia ayuda a mitigar el potencial básico del mal.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Government, Evil, Democracy

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• It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Democracy, Way

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, Libertarian, Dictator

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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