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

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

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?

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

The most may err as grossly as the few.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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