My
abhorrence to democracy is not unknown to the regular readers of my
writings. In this article, I have a few
quotes from some folks in history about democracy that I would like to share. Fascinating thoughts from perceptive minds…
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”—Benjamin Franklin The “tyranny of the majority” is a familiar phrase to America’s founders. In a democracy, since the majority rules, what is to prevent 51% of the people from passing laws that deny the other 49% their rights? Or, what is to prevent the majority from voting money out of the hands who have earned it and giving it to themselves? This is freedom? This is wisdom? This is good government?
Incidentally,
Bob Costas, you and your liberal buddies are not getting our guns. It’s
the only protection we have from you and…democracy. The well-armed lamb….
I
love this one: “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with
the average voter.”—Winston Churchill
Can you say, “Obamaphone”? How, how, HOW can a country give the vote to
a person like that and expect progress, strength, virtue, and success? It can’t happen. The right to vote is not a natural right, because the right to vote gives a person the
right to rule somebody else, and nobody is born with that right. It has to be earned, and it has to be earned
through industry, wisdom, morality, frugality, and success. Those are the virtues a country should want
ruling it, not covetousness, laziness, profligacy, licentiousness, and failure.
“It is a besetting vice of democracies to
substitute public opinion for law. This
is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.”—James Fenimore
Cooper This is brilliant. The most critical thing, the most crucial
element, of any government is to
acknowledge there is a God Who has established eternal moral laws for the
direction of mankind on earth. When a
country sets that aside, and allows majority opinion to define morality and
law, then every kind of vice known to man will plague a people--vices such as
abortion, homosexual “marriage”, theft in the name of “sharing the wealth,” and
a thousand other such practices that are destroying the fiber and foundation of
the United States. People need
guidance. They need God. “It is not in man who walks to direct his own
steps,” Jeremiah said (10:23). Democracies
invariably set aside the laws of God for the opinions of man; they don’t have to do that, but they do. History conclusively shows that the majority
will ultimately nearly always be wrong, and that is why they cannot be trusted
with political power. But then, for that
matter, nobody should be entrusted
with too much political power. It is too
intoxicating an evil for most humans to control.
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”—Karl
Marx I need a little time to develop
this theme—which is absolutely the truth—but for now, I will only say that,
since equality (not freedom) is the guiding principle of both democracy and
socialism, then it is never a surprise when democracies end up tending towards
socialism. All Marxists certainly know
this; that is why the communist dictatorships usually call(ed) themselves “The
People’s Republic” and say they are establishing true democracy. Many, many of my students, who have, of
course, been trained in the Chinese education (propaganda) system, actually
believe that their country is a democracy.
Democracy,
in theory, sounds so good with its talk of freedom, equality, and rights for
the people. But theory and the practice have
been widely separate. The current
debased, debauched, licentious condition of the United States is almost totally
the fault of democracy. You give the
masses the vote, and you take God away from them, and the conclusion is
inevitable. It has been written in
history many times before.