Democracy passes into despotism.

Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequaled alike.

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he fi…

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

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…

'Hitler came to power by democratic election, and he killed seven million Jews. One-person, one-vote is no panacea.' --Regina Ip defending the lack of democrac…

Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to ge…