“I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.”

“When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democrac...”

“A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other f...”

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”

“The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democracy, from beneath which the old aristocratic colors som...”

“I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.”

“In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.”

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

“The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.”

“Does history record any case in which the majority was right?”

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”

“The citizen must have high ideals, and yet he must be able to achieve them inpractical fashion.”