Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Dem Herlichsten, was auch der Geist empfangen, drängt Stoff sich an—Matter presses heavily on the noblest efforts of the spirit. Goethe, in "Faust."

Dem Hunde, wenn er gut gezogen / Wird 20 selbst ein weiser Mann gewogen—Even a wise man will attach himself to the dog when he is well bred. Goethe.

De minimis non curat lex—The law takes no notice of trifles. L.

Dem Menschen ist / Ein Mensch noch immer lieber als ein Engel—A man is ever dearer to man than an angel. Lessing.

Democracies are prone to war, and war consumes them. W. H. Seward.

Democracy has done a wrong to everything that is not first-rate. Amiel.

Democracy is always the work of kings. 25 Ashes, which in themselves are sterile, fertilise the land they are cast upon. Landor.

Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business, and gives in the long-run a net result of zero. Carlyle.

Democracy is the healthful life-blood which circulates through the veins and arteries, which supports the system, but which ought never to appear externally, and as the mere blood itself. Coleridge.

Democracy is the most powerful solvent of military organisation. The latter is founded on discipline; the former on the negation of discipline. Renan.