Democracy means government by discussion but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

In a democracy the general good is furthered only when the special interests of competing minorities accidentally coincide-or cancel each other out.

It has been said that Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them.

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state.

Democratic nations care but little for what has been, but they are haunted by visions of what will be.

The most may err as grossly as the few.

The evils of popular government appear greater than they are; there is compensation for them in the spirit and energy it awakens.