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 well as that of any other form of government. At any rate, the advantages of democracy as a method of peaceful change and of political education seem to be so great compared with those of any other system that I can have no sympathy with the antidemocratic strain of conservatism. It is not who governs but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem.

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 b…

That the conservative opposition to too much government control is not a matter of principle but is concerned with the particular aims of government is clearly…

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…

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…

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discon…