When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.

Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

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

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

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

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.