When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

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

The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.

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

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

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

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

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

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

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

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.