James Bovard Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

  James Bovard

  Humor, Two, Democracies Have

  James Bovard (2016). “Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty”, p.333, St. Martin's Griffin

• Well, one of the first things is to restore the rule of law, to place the government back under the cage of law. Another thing is to stop falling for the myth of democracy.

  James Bovard

  Fall, Government, Law

  "Talkin’ to America" with Aaron Zelman, jpfo.org.

• Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote. Those rights are spelled out in the Bill of Rights and in our California Constitution. Voters and politicians alike would do well to take a look at the rights we each hold, which must never be chipped away by the whim of the majority.

  James Bovard

  Taken, Two, Lunch

• American democracy is capsizing as a result of the vast increase in the number of government dependents and government employees.

  James Bovard

  Government, Numbers, Democracy

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.133, Macmillan

• The more government dependents, the more likely that democracy will become a conspiracy against self-reliance.

  James Bovard

  Government, Self, Democracy

  James Bovard (2015). “Freedom in Chains: The Rise of the State and the Demise of the Citizen”, p.137, Macmillan

• Rather than a democracy, we increasingly have an elective dictatorship. People are merely permitted to choose who will violate the laws and the Constitution.

  James Bovard

  Law, People, Democracy

  Interview with Anthony Wile, www.thedailybell.com. September 25, 2011.

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