Quotes & Notes

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Least of all should a man be envious, when it is a question, not of the gifts of fortune, or chance, or another's favour, but of the gifts of nature; because everything that is innate in a man rests on a metaphysical basis, and possesses justification of a higher kind; it is, so to speak, given him by Divine grace.