democracy Quotes

I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

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