Sentence Examples:
Governments which ensure peace and paternal tyrants are therefore preferable to demagogues.
Watch ignorant people listening to a demagogue and see what unreasonable things they accept.
The demagogue succeeds because he makes himself understood, even if he is not worth understanding.
It elevated a demagogue as candidate for Governor, and promised every reform on the calendar.
He did not limit the suffrage; he depended on the democracy to defeat unpopular demagogues.
I make no doubt, but they have architects, demagogues, senators, musicians, and philosophers amongst them.
Until comparatively recent times 'democracy' was a term of contempt, as 'demagogue' still is to-day.
Demagogues trying their hands at legislation may be excused for their ignorance of the world.
The people are following demagogues sprung from nowhere, following whatever voice promises the most killing.
He seems in danger of becoming a demagogue, and of resting his case on an appeal to class-hatred.
Does he not see the demagogue gradually assuming the features and the powers of the tyrant!
There was none of the pathetic humor, or the unconsciously humorous pathos of the ordinary demagogue.
There will be no stability of government under such demagogues as Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson.
It is greatly to be regretted that many of our modern demagogues do not complete the parallel.
The man appealed and explained; but he was disliked as a demagogue, as well as a photographer.
We talk of the demagogue flattering the mob; but the most successful demagogue generally abuses it.
It was seized upon by demagogues as a device for giving rich men an advantage over poor men.
Noisy partisans and intriguing demagogues were not the favorites of the people at that trying period.
Micah has more to say, but not better, about the demagogue prophets in the following oracle.
Ambitious demagogues will rise, and the people through ignorance, and love of change, will follow them.
These demagogues never tell the people that the opportunities are ever open that have made others rich.
Arch demagogue he certainly was, but demagogues have their great uses in periods of storm and stress.
The real end of the State, the best administration and constitution, is likewise to demagogues very vague.
And we do in fact find the early tyrants described as having been previously demagogues or soldiers.
With the same superb courage he tackles the demagogues who are the cause of all the mischief.
The fifth victim, indeed, was a notorious demagogue who had pardoned the assassin of the fourth.
Yet he affected, like Wilkes, to unite the character of the demagogue to that of the fine gentleman.
Whenever taxes should press on the people, demagogues would set up their schemes of new States.
After peace had been established, by the influence of what demagogue was the bloody contest renewed?
No newspapers nor shouting demagogues came to them with the lies that create and feed an artificial frenzy.
And as for that crack-brained demagogue cousin of yours, he calls the Constitution a compact with hell!
The masses, when once under the spell of agitation, are at the disposal of the boldest demagogues.
Even a stupid demagogue would know that to be successful he must gain control of the government machinery.
And it was State pride, prejudice, and ignorance which gave provincial demagogues their advantage and opportunity.
It is fairly true to say that the majority of the early tyrants have developed out of demagogues.
I fancy there must be a human side to a man like that, even if he is a mischievous demagogue.
The popular leader, or "demagogue," was some conspicuous and wealthy noble, who thus acquired supreme authority.
The difference between a demagogue and a leader is not so much a matter of method as of principle.
That excellent old arrangement that had gone on since demagogues were first invented was in full vigor.
The trouble is that the demagogue thinks this, the most difficult of all things, an easy task.
The oldest man living does not remember to have heard any demagogue breathe a wish for separation.
Of all petty tyrants, he (Meyer) is one of the pettiest, as are most demagogues that ever I knew.
He was far from being a demagogue, and he was frequently found fighting on the unpopular side.
Noisy partisans and intriguing demagogues were not the favorites of the people during the war of independence.
This is the secret of the power of demagogues and of other worthless and otherwise insignificant individuals.
Was that song merely the trick of a demagogue, to be forgotten when its purpose was served?
This is an invitation to the demagogue; these are his materials, and he will aggregate and control them.
Demagogues may tell you that the Union can be maintained only by submitting to the demands of slavery.
"Rather than see them put a demagogue into my place I would try to keep it," answered Gertrude.
There are limitations to what government can accomplish; there are no limitations to what a demagogue can promise.
More than the demagogue gives us credit for, are the great majority of us eager to help our neighbors.
Father Stanley is slow, destitute of either education or wit, and examines applicants like a demagogue fishes for votes.
Intelligent study and voting upon these and similar questions would give us real statesmen for present demagogues.
Michael McGrath, demagogue though he was, knew his public as the physician knows the pulse he feels.
The Roman demagogues, as is the instinct of their kind, made political capital by attacking industrial capital.
When force invokes religion in order to command, and demagogues appeal to the religious element in order to destroy?
There is something too much of this parade of exceptional virtues on the part of such demagogues as yourself.
It must be said in his favor that he sought popularity by none of the tricks of the demagogue.
Traits in the character of a demagogue; and where the greatest villains often reach the highest offices.
The demagogue and his whole flock vanished like unclean birds at the first rays of the sun.
They are often deceived by the arts of demagogues; but this deception endures only for a season.
Paul Bert seems to be a true demagogue, otherwise he would not resort to a falsehood to please his constituents.
He is the only thing resembling a follower that our demagogue possesses, and is cherished by him accordingly.
Whatever I began, whatever I undertook, to the demagogue every door was closed; every means of support withdrawn.
This does not mean that all the attacks on the big Corporation have been the work of demagogues.
The great demagogue had no notion anybody could feel so much impatience to see a first performance of a play.
As a result, while they no longer believe him a demagogue, some still hesitate to accept him as a statesman.
The train was well laid for an insurrection when a demagogue arrived with the match to fire it.
The demagogues took up the cry, and hounded on one another and the people in hunting down a victim.
If the people are not true to themselves, demagogues may easily ride into office who will not be true to them.
No one likes Jules Favre, whom even his partisans consider to be a demagogue of talent, but nothing more.
The republic did not long survive when successful generals and eloquent demagogues were sustained by the people.
The chief bribery found in the legislative assemblies was contained in the proposal submitted by the demagogue.
My experience has taught me this, when you cannot slay a demagogue by law, crush him with honors.
The return is a howl of defiance from the brutal demagogue, and an immediate increase of murder and of crime.
To remove the grievance was to silence the demagogue; what the people wanted was comfort and not power.
It is not surprising, therefore, that the phrase has long been a favorite with the demagogue and the utopian.
You will find that you and your supporters, as well as we, have interests to protect against the demagogues.
Demagogues were not common when a false statement on "the stump" was apt to result in a mortal combat.
It was felt that his education and his brilliant talents had only qualified him to be a reckless demagogue.
Finally, one learns to read and to hear, and comes to distinguish between real arguments and those of demagogues.
The demagogue has no hesitation in attacking those things which are right only provided they happen to be unpopular.
The process just described makes the early tyrant develop out of a demagogue who is usually also a general.
I said to him in reply: 'Sir, I once recognized you as a demagogue, a mere party manager, selfish and intriguing.
One of the leading cries of the demagogues here is that the Chinese are crowding white men out of employment.
They claimed that business was sound and honest, and the upheaval was caused by the agitation of demagogues.
Some men seem born demagogues, and live under the influence of Gog and Magog during their whole lives.
Aristophanes and his laughing public were, for a time at least, stronger than the demagogue whom they ridiculed.
The conservatives had won; the evolution of democracy was checked, thanks to the advent of certain crude demagogues.
This provision is a valuable one, in spite of the fact that demagogues are sometimes able thereby to gain cheap glory.
He boasts of being a demagogue; "The cart and the trumpet for me," he says, with admirable good sense.
The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly.
If he was a brute piece of lust, a tyrant, a demagogue, so much the better, it would ease her conscience.
It was full of a class of Irishmen who had proved especially responsive to the demagogues opposing the war.
Is a demagogue a friend of the people because he will lie to them to make them cry and raise false hopes?
In this, he shared the fate of most demagogues, who are commonly despised even by those they lead and deceive.
The leaders of faction and the demagogues of a party associated not with him, and could not know him.
"He says it gives the lower class a substitute for mental activity and demagogues a chance to exploit them."
The demagogue shouts enough for a hundred, but the silent thinker who disdains noise would be better worth hearing.
With such a people, too, the demagogue is a natural product; and the demagogue period of this country is at hand.