John Joachim Zubli Quotes

Democracy is a good client.

I do not conceive God did ever ordain [democracy] as a fit government for either church or commonwealth …. As for monarchy and aristocracy, they are both clearly approved and directed in the Scriptures.

We need a strong state but we need a democratic one.

Democracy is politics.

Democracy is a relatively new form of government.

When one person can initiate war, by its definition, a republic no longer exists.

Elected presidents are for countries.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.

There never was that government called a republic, which was not ultimately ruled by a single will, and, therefore, (however bold may seem the paradox,) virtually and substantially a monarchy.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

The American political system was created by a bunch of geniuses so that it could be run by a bunch of idiots.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

The founding fathers set up this country as a republic—not a democracy.

A constitutional democracy like ours is perhaps the most difficult of man's social arrangements to manage successfully. Our scheme of society is more dependent than any other form of government on knowledge and wisdom and self-discipline for the achievement of its aims. For our democracy implies the reign of reason on the most extensive scale.

American democracy is a unique form of government which at the same time requires [political] competition and cooperation.

The king, in possession of the throne, was the sole representative of sovereignty, the sole representative of power. Not so in a Republic … Here we have no sole representative of power. The ballot box is the instrumentality through which the sovereign power is exercised.

What constitutes a republic is the total destruction of everything that stands in opposition to it.

In a republic, if laws are not always respectable, they are always respected.

Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.

I hold to be of itself a lesson for all those who love liberty, and who would extend its blessings to their country. Men are not to be pedants in liberty, any more than in virtue. Though they are not to be oppressed by tyrants, they must at least be governed by their fellow-men. The great principles of independence in the heart of man are to be cherished and upheld; but order, prosperity, the purposes of society, must be accomplished. The many must delegate the government of themselves to the few. Control, executive power, must be lodged somewhere …

The Republic established by the founders was a fragile experiment in a world bestrode by kings, queens, emperors, czars, dictators, and theories of aristocracy.

I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

Politics is activity in relation to power.