Top 5 Robert A. Dahl Quotes (2025 Update)

Robert A. Dahl Quote: “Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.”

1. “Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.”

Robert A. Dahl Quote: “Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.”

2. “Most of us readily take things for granted that at an earlier time remained to be discovered.”

3. “As in Athens, the right to participate was restricted to men, just as it was also in all later democracies and republics until the twentieth century.”

— Robert A. Dahl

4. “As with the United States, so too in these other five countries federalism was not so much a free choice as a self-evident necessity imposed by history.”

— Robert A. Dahl

5. “The Framers feared and detested factions, a view famously expressed by Madison in Federalist No. 10.31 Probably no statement has been so often cited to explain and justify the checks against popular majorities that the Framers attempted to build into the constitution. It is supremely ironic, therefore, that more than anyone except Jefferson, it was Madison who helped to create the Republican Party in order to defeat the Federalists.”

— Robert A. Dahl

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