Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?

Pessimistic visions about almost anything always strike the public as more erudite than optimistic ones

The ballot is stronger than bullets.

It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stocking for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for a steadily decreasing amount of effort.