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.Abraham Lincoln
He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.Abraham Lincoln
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.Aristotle
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.Aristotle
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.Aristotle
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.Bernard Shaw