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In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

Our country's founders cherished liberty, not democracy.

Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.

Democracy fascinates me.

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.