A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it. — Alexis De Tocqueville. French diplomat, political philosopher and historian (1805–1859) Democracy, Economics
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.
There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.
The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.