The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

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.

Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Vox populi, vox humbug.

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

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.

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

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

So many men, so many opinions.

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

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