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

What touches all shall be approved by all.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Oh, democracy! Whither are you leading us?

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant, democracy to many.

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

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

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

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

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

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

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.