David Crockett Quotes
I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to open electioneering for his successor. It is treating the nation as if it was the property of a single individual, and he had the right to bequeath it to whom he pleased - the same as a patch of land for which he had the patent.
Crockett, David. An Account of Col. Crockett's Tour to the North and Down East. E. L. Carey and A. Hart, 1835.
Hanna was returning from President William McKinley's funeral in Buffalo, NY. Hanna had been concerned even when Roosevelt was nominated Vice President. See related quotes.
This quotation illustrates the "winner take all" conceopt of many political cultures that call themselves and think of theselves as a democracy. But a true democracy does not allow a tyranny of the majority--especially a very narrow minority.
“Rotation” was the word for “term limits.” The Constitution was amended to limit the President to 2 terms, but there is not yet a limit on senators. What is interesting is that Jefferson did not include members of the House of Representatives in his call for term limits. Yet today, they are the ones who are the most entrenched.
He was referring to Russian elections. The reasons that elections in Russia are not necessary for legitimizing state power to be used by the current government, is that from the early days of the Russian Czars, the tradition and culture assumed that if there is a threat to "Mother Russia", everyone and everything in the state is at the disposal of the government, no matter who is in power. It is so strongly embedded in the culture that although many Russians want fee elections and the right to choose their leaders, they have no question that the government alway has the right and duty to marshall amm the human and physical resources to protect the state, See Quotation 644072 for more on this imporatnt concept in Russia.
David "Davy" Crockett was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonly referred to in popular culture by the epithet "King of the Wild Frontier". He represented Tennessee in the U.S. House of Representatives and served in the Texas Revolution.
