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

Vox populi, vox humbug.

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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

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

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

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.

In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.

Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?

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

Let the people think they govern, and they will be governed.

If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?