Alexander Fraser Tytler Quotes

It is not good to have a rule of many.

Rulers come and go; governments end and forms of government change; but sovereignty survives.

Peru needs an emperor.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

I am the state.

I’m the constitution around here now.

There must be in all [societies and governments] a supreme, irresistable, absolute, uncontrolled authority.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

Democracy is politics.

A republic is little better than a government of devils

MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.

If you don't know the difference between dictatorship and leadership then you got to go back to a fifth grade civics class.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

The fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.

Democracy is a good client.

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

I would not like a king who could obey.

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

Democracy is far more complex than simply choosing the people who govern you.

You are afraid of the one, I, of the few.... You are apprehensive of monarchy, I, of aristocracy.

A democracy, when put to the strain, grows weak; and it is supplanted by oligarchy [rule by the few].

Now we are governed by gentlemen.

The people who own the country are now going to get to run it.

Towering over Presidents and State Governors, over Congress and State Legislatures, over conventions and the vast machinery of party, public opinion stands out in the United States, as the great source of Power.