"The U.S. Constitution is the basic framework for the greatest democracy on Earth. Some of my colleagues find it easy to amend it. I don't"

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

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

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

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

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

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections"

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

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""