"For not only every democracy, but certainly every republic, bears within itself the seeds of its own destruction"

"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it"

"Britain, which in the years immediately before this war was rapidly losing such democratic virtues as it possessed, is now being bombed and burned into democracy"

"In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace"

"Despite what many Americans think, most Soviets do not yearn for capitalism or Western-style democracy"

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments"

"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme"

"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost"

"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 equal"

"The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart"