The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Monarchy hardens into despotism. Aristocracy contracts into oligarchy. Democracy expands into the supremacy of numbers.

The reward of history is that it releases and relieves us from present strife.

Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.

Great men are almost always bad men.

Limitation is essential to authority. A government is legitimate only if it is effectively limited.