Luthin, Reinhard H. (1954). American Demagogues. Beacon Press. стр. 3. „What is a demagogue? He is a politician skilled in oratory, flattery and invective; evasive in discussing vital issues; promising everything to everybody; appealing to the passions rather than the reason of the public; and arousing racial, religious, and class prejudices—a man whose lust for power without recourse to principle leads him to seek to become a master of the masses. He has for centuries practiced his profession of 'man of the people'. He is a product of a political tradition nearly as old as western civilization itself.”
„On Demagogues”. The American Democrat. Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney. 1838. стр. 98—104.
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„demagogue, n.”. Oxford English Dictionary. јун 2012. Приступљено 13. 6. 2012. „A leader of a popular faction, or of the mob; a political agitator who appeals to the passions and prejudices of the mob in order to obtain power or further his own interests; an unprincipled or factious popular orator.”
