Baron de Montesquieu Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Fall, Democracy, Spirit

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.153, Library of Alexandria

• Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and the spirit of extreme equality, which conducts it to despotism, as the despotism of a single individual finishes by conquest.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Democracies Have, Government

• It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is lessneed of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Thinking, Government, Law

• Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Equality, Democracy

  "The Spirit of Laws".

• The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Wisdom, Democracy, Apathy

• When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  People, Nerd, Democracy

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.22, Library of Alexandria

• A love of the republic in a democracy is a love of the democracy, as the latter is that of equality. A love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality. Since every individual ought here to enjoy the same happiness, and the same advantages, they should consequently taste the same pleasures and form the same hopes, which cannot be expected but from a general frugality.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Democracy, Republic, Taste

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.64, Library of Alexandria

• There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but in reality it is more oppressive than monarchy, as the experience of all ages and countries evinces.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Country, Reality, Government

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