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…

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests; and when not efficiently chec…

But the mass of the old electors did not analyse very much: they liked to have one of their 'betters' to represent them; if he was rich they respected him much…

The democracy which shows up in the United States and in England is not an ideal democracy, because the will of the people is under the pressure of property, w…