Closely connected with this is the usual attitude of the conservative to democracy. I have made it clear earlier that I do not regard majority rule as an end but merely as a means, or perhaps even as the least evil of those forms of government from which we have to choose. But I believe that the conservatives deceive themselves when they blame the evils of our time on democracy. The chief evil is unlimited government, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. The powers which modern democracy possesses would be even more intolerable in the hands of some small elite.

In the last resort, the conservative position rests on the belief that in any society there are recognizably superior persons whose inherited standards and val…

It is not democracy but unlimited government that is objectionable, and I do not see why the people should not learn to limit the scope of majority rule as wel…

To live and work successfully with others requires more than faithfulness to one's concrete aims. It requires an intellectual commitment to a type of order in …

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…

No, let the monarch's bags and others hold The flattering, mighty, nay, al-mighty gold.

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…