Herman Melville Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• There is no dignity in wickedness, whether in purple or rags; and hell is a democracy of devils, where all are equals.

  Herman Melville

  Purple, Devil, Democracy

  Herman Melville (2016). “Redburn.His First Voyage”, p.310, Herman Melville

• We Americans are the peculiar, chosen people - the Israel of our time; we bear the ark of the liberties of the world.

  Herman Melville

  Israel, People, Democracy

  Herman Melville (1850). “White-jacket: or, The world in a man-of-war”, p.151

• The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

  Herman Melville

  God, Democracy, Divine

  Herman Melville, Harrison Hayford, Walter E. Bezanson (1991). “Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land”, p.606, Northwestern University Press

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