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I like aristocracy. I like the beauty of aristocracy. I like the hierarchical feeling.

I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

You cannot be democratic one day, and undemocratic on another. It is a state of mind, it is a way of living, and it is an essence of action.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

Democracy is a good client.

All of my novels are democracies.

I'm an independent, but I got to admit I lean Democratic.

I've always been completely autocratic. I've never learned to be diplomatic or democratic.

Democratic institutions are based on a reality of human nature: that those with power, however benign or even noble their intentions, will do what they can to keep it.