For many years our country has been the victim of a demagoguism, resulting from the working of this very principle, and the question admits of serious discussion whether, instead of abrogating the form, a return to the _spirit_ of the Constitution, while, at the same time, holding strictly amenable those to whom this important choice is intrusted, would not result in a pure and more statesmanlike administration of public affairs. ❋ Various (N/A)
Is ambitious and reckless demagoguism to be apprehended? ❋ Various (N/A)
American people will grow into the habit of demanding that an enlightened, patriotic statesmanship shall rule, instead of an unprincipled demagoguism. ❋ Various (N/A)
Something answering to demagoguism is found in the Ultra Orient: there was not only the honest opposition of the patriot, but the factious hostility of the office seeker, against whom the ministry were called to contend. ❋ Various (N/A)
Yet it is in this faith, that demagoguism will be stronger than a great principle, that such men as Mahoney write and live. ❋ Various (N/A)
This was no doubt demagoguism, but there was back of it the great questions of protection to American industries, sound and stable currency, and the necessity of economy in public expenditures. ❋ John Sherman (N/A)
Through it all, he maintained his reputation as a man of few words, devoid of ostentation, and with no ambition to court public favor by any act of demagoguism. ❋ Walter Allen (1873)
Your appeal to the ministers to come out of this organization, on the ground of its _secrecy_, is a species of demagoguism, the more disgusting when it is considered that you are a _Free Mason_, and have, by all the arts and blandishment of your nature, sought to induce ministers to go into that organization. ❋ William Gannaway Brownlow (1841)
What is most striking is the demagoguism, and the deep social pessimism. ❋ Unknown (2008)
For he is not, as formerly, obliged to part with it as soon as it is cut, to pay taxes and rent; the bailiff and sheriff are no longer there to constrain him; in these times of disorder and demagoguism, under impotent or partial authorities, neither the public nor the private creditor has the power to compel payment, while the spurs which formerly impelled the farmer to seek the nearest market are blunted or broken. ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)
"He talked, too, of outside influences; of the public expectations, and all that sort of demagoguism. ❋ Unknown (1853)
