Maggie Gallagher Quotes

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

'The End of America' details the 10 steps that would-be dictators always take in seeking to close an open society; it argued that the Bush administration had been advancing each one.

No truly sophisticated proponent of repression would be stupid enough to shatter the facade of democratic institutions.

A totalitarian state will harmonize in Spain the operation of all the capabilities and energy in the country

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad..

Given the right conditions, any society can turn against democracy. Indeed, if history is anything to go by, all societies eventually will.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The radical Left wants control over the lives of the American people and will sink to any depths to get it.

In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.

Dictators don't come from elections.

Tony Blair personified the shift away from democracy, towards control by bankers.

The promises that globalism is the solution, the promise that government's going to make your life better if you just give up your freedoms, the promises that we know better than you on how to make your lives better, have been rejected.

Autocratic power requires the degradation of moral authority - not the capture of moral high ground.

Authoritarianism doesn't fall on a nation like a book falling from a shelf and striking you in the head. It rolls in like a slow tide.

Maduro distanced himself from democracy. He deconstructed the entire judiciary and blocked parliamentary processes.

Pressure and protest is fine, but using fear and threats to force politicians to sing to a certain tune will be the death of our democracy.

The nightmare in every democracy, the very nightmare, is if it gets worse and worse and worse, we could end up totalitarian.

The combination of economic and political power in the same hands is a sure recipe for tyranny.

This is not a democracy," I said, understanding he fear but unable to do anything about it. "It's a Maxocracy.

The terrible tyranny of the majority.

The people who say they're for democracy want nothing to do with democracy.

Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power.

Russia's inclination toward authoritarianism undoubtedly strengthened the leaders in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Kazakhstan, as they are afraid of normal democratic procedures.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

I believe that during these times, we should not forget that many sacrificed to regain our democracy. We cannot just keep quiet because that is what happened during martial law. Our dictator then believed that he can do anything to keep himself in power.