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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

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

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.

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

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.

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

An electoral choice of ten different fascists is like choosing which way one wishes to die.

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

I have often been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

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