“There is nothing more corrosive to a democracy than the idea that there is no truth.”
Adam Schiff (1960) American politician
Open Letter to the Committee Hearing Re: FBI Director James Comey and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers
“There is nothing more undemocratic and corrosive to the rule of law than a coup d’état.”
Quoted in As a former UN special rapporteur, the coup in Venezuela reminds me of the rush to war in Iraq, The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/venezuela-crisis-coup-maduro-guaido-us-troops-un-iraq-a8767506.html (7 February 2019) <br class="br">2019
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“We will block what is nothing less than a coup.”
Caroline Lucas (1960) British politician, MP of the Green Party for Brighton Pavilion and former MEP for South-East England
Said after Lucas signed the Church House Agreement that pledged that MPs would form an alternative government if Boris Johnson attempted to prorogue Parliament. Quoted in the Guardian. MPs pledge to form alternative parliament in case of prorogation https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/27/mps-pledge-form-alternative-parliament-prorogation-church-house-declaration-brexit (27 August 2019) <br class="br">2019
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
Frame of Government (1682)
Context: I know what is said by the several admirers of monarchy, aristocracy and democracy, which are the rule of one, a few, and many, and are the three common ideas of government, when men discourse on the subject. But I chuse to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: Any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the law rules, and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Koila Nailatikau (1953) Fijian politician
On the government's proposed Reconciliation and Unity Commission, 24 July, 2005
“There is a sense in which all law is nothing more nor less than a gigantic confidence trick.”
Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone (1907–2001) British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
Speech to Devon Magistrates, The Times 12 April 1972.
Jair Bolsonaro (1955) Brazilian president elect
At the program Câmera Aberta at Band on 23 May 1999 about what he would do on the first day as president of Brazil. O dia que Bolsonaro quis matar FHC, sonegar impostos e declarar guerra civil http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/politica/republica/o-dia-que-bolsonaro-quis-matar-fhc-sonegar-impostos-e-declarar-guerra-civil-8mtm0u0so6pk88kqnqo0n1l69. Gazeta do Povo (10 October 2017).
Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) 3rd President of the United States of America
There are no indications that Jefferson ever stated anything like this; slight variants of this statement seem to have become widely attributed to Jefferson only since its appearance in three books of 2004: The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible: A Free Market Odyssey (2004) by Ken Schoolland, p. 235; Damn-ocracy — Government From Hell!: The Political, Economic And Money System (2004) by Wendall Dennis and Reason And Reality : A Novel (2004) by Mishrilal Jain, p. 232; see also info at Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia http://wiki.monticello.org/mediawiki/index.php/Democracy_is_nothing_more_than_mob_rule. <br class="br">Misattributed