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For poets Half-poets even, are still whole democrats.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

And wrinkles, the d--d democrats, won't flatter.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

Caesarism is democracy without liberty.

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

Democracy is on trial in the world, on a more colossal scale than ever before.

Drawn to the dregs of a democracy.

God has endowed man with inalienable rights, among which are self-government, reason, and conscience. Man is properly self-governed only when he is guided rightly and governed by his Maker, divine Truth and Love.

Democracy is essentially anti-authoritarian--that is, it not only demands the right but imposes the responsibility of thinking for ourselves.

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions--it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

Democ'acy gives every man A right to be his own oppressor.

To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, "Pray," said Lycurgus, "do you first set a democracy in your own house."

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

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

A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are,' but 'You are as good as I am.'

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.