Vox populi, vox humbug.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.

Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

I have always been of the mind that in a democracy, manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie knife.

It is hell to belong to a suppressed minority.

The people are the foundation of the state. If the foundations are firm, the state will be tranquil.

Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.

Do you suppose it possible to know democracy without knowing the people?

In America, everybody is, but some are more than others.

The king times are fast finishing. There will be blood shed like water, and tears like mist; but the peoples will conquer in the end.