It was directed, not by men of genius, not by reformers seeking to rule by wisdom, but by demagogues and Jacobin clubs, and the mobs of the city of Paris.
And they were backed up and urged forward by ignorant mobs, and wicked demagogues who hated the throne, the clergy, and the nobles.
As we have sometimes hypocrites in religion, and demagogues in politics, so there are occasionally misers among money-getters.
It is only when, as in the case of Germany and Italy, the sceptre is wrenched from the hands of the constitutional authorities, and when the rule of demagogues and experimentalists commences, that the danger of war begins.
Greed of office, curse of democracies, will impel demagogues to grovel deeper and deeper in the mire in pursuit of ignorant votes.
But the people who do that, Carmen, are called demagogues and muck-rakers!
How many such partings there were all over this fair land of ours, brought about by the ambition of demagogues so few in number that we can count them on our fingers!
Rodney had often seen Confederates lash themselves into a fury while denouncing the "Northern mudsills," but he had never before seen a Union man act so while proclaiming against the demagogues who were bent on destroying the government.
That of the local demagogues who will be degraded by it from the importance they now hold.
It would have the effect not only of hindering the final passage of such laws; but would discourage demagogues from attempting to get them passed.
Whenever taxes should press on the people, demagogues would set up their schemes of new States.
The new demagogues avail themselves of this to keep their hold on the people, and when the time comes, to use it against their chiefs.
It is not that I adulate the people: Without me, there are demagogues enough, And infidels, to pull down every steeple, And set up in their stead some proper stuff.
When demagogues would with a butcher's knife Cut through and through (oh!
He is the Spaniard of education and worldly wisdom, detached from the mediaeval imbecilities of the old regime and yet aloof from the worse follies of the demagogues who now rage in the country .
These and many other dangerous experiments could easily be undertaken by needy demagogues with fantastic ideas, if the supervision of municipalities by the national Government were abolished.
Better a Cabinet of Chamberlains and Gladstones than a circus of conflicting unscrupulous demagogues on the make.
In presence of the gravity of the time and the gravity of such an appeal, the chattering of demagogues was silent; henceforth the only thought of the Romans was how they might be able jointly to avert the common peril.
In reality these demagogues were the worst enemies of reform.
As is usually the case at such times, demagogues were at hand urging the sufferers to revolutionary measures.
Another of these demagogueswas Henry Hunt, commonly known as "Orator" Hunt, who had offered himself as a candidate for Westminster at the last general election, and figured in the Spa Fields commotion.
These were the demagogues who, under the pretense of attacking the wicked interests, introduced bills for the sole purpose of being bought off.
By this ideal he set a great gulf between himself and the demagogues who fawned upon Labor and corrupted it by granting its unjust demands.
But the questions we have to ask about demagogues are two: Is he sincere?
It is this which is the support of the demagogues of the State and the Church.
The American idea is with us; the spirit of the majority of men in the North, when they are not blindfolded and muzzled by the demagogues of State and Church.
The Demagogues of the Parties are all or nearly all against it.
I purpose to continue to do what I can to break up the mob that is being led on by demagogues disguised as captains of industry and advance agents of prosperity--led on to pillage the resources of the country, its riches and its character.
Dunkirk and these other demagogues who bleed you are inflaming public sentiment more and more against you big corporations,--that's their way of frightening you into yielding to their demands.
But if you simply have common humanity, clothed in the awful majesty of a just cause, you appeal in vain to the cormorants of trade, the harpies of law, or the demagogues of power.
The minority who have no turn for demagogy are demagogues though they do not like it, and because they are forced by necessity.
For in democracies which are subject to the law, the best citizens hold the first place and there are no demagogues; but where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up.
It is a political fault which is often committed in oligarchies as well as in democracies, and where the multitude has control of the laws, the demagogues make this mistake.
Even those who have no disposition that way become demagogues in the end, for that is the way of the world.
Otherwise the argument of the anti-patriot demagogues would be just.
The demagogues make the decrees of the people override the laws, and refer all things to the popular assembly.
The result is that the majority of school teachers are demagogues because they like it, and with magnificent enthusiasm and passion.
And indeed, it may also be asked, would not the petty influence and authority confided to those who are ambitious by their townsmen satisfy their ambition, and prevent them from becoming demagogues and disturbing the country?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demagogues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
