If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?

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?

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

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

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

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

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

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

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.

Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

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.