Vox populi, vox humbug.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

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

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

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

Some to the common pulpits, and cry out / “Liberty, freedom, and enfranchisement!”

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

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

Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?

Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.

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

Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

The world is wearied of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.