Rush Limbaugh Quotes

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the reverse.

I'm concerned about the survival, historically, of constitutional democracy.

It is true that Egypt's attempt at democracy after the 2011 revolution encountered many obstacles in governance and infrastructure.

If you present good government, then elections look after themselves.

Recalling our history which has been characterized by political and constitutional instability …

Authoritarianism provides a kind of negative stability. Democracy creates space to do a lot of things, sometimes bad things, dangerous things.

It is very easy to have elections. It is very difficult to consolidate political order.

Democracy is nothing more than an experiment in government, more likely to succeed in a new soil, but likely to be tried in all soils, which must stand or fall on its own merits as others have done before it. For there is no trick of perpetual motion in politics any more than in mechanics.

Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war.

In South America, there is no more room for alternatives to democracy.

A banana republic we are not.

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

Democracy is an insecure landscape.

Democracy cannot sustain itself amid a high degree of violence.

I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has never been and never can be so durable as aristocracy or monarchy; but while it lasts, it is more bloody than either.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

It's hard in all countries. Democracy is hard, but it's better than the alternatives.

I have changed my Ministers but I have not changed my measures.Iamstill formoderation, and Iwill governby it.

All attempts to destroy democracy by terrorism will fail. It must be business as usual.

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

I think [Winston] Churchill said it was " [democracy] the worst of all systems except for all the others." And that's probably true. It's never gone easily.

As freedom is the only safeguard of governments, so are order and moderation generally necessary to preserve freedom.

In the end, democratic societies are stronger and more resilient than any autocracy. And more adaptable too.