"Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave"

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage"

"I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one"

"The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding"

"Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people"

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it"

"All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual"

"There can be no tyrants where there are no slaves"

"Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy"

"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven"

"The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board"