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.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the State to effect, and on a general plan.

Governments (derive) their just powers from the consent of the governed

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

I suppose that's democracy really. But everybody with a laptop thinks they're a journalist these days. That's a problem.

If it's good for China, opening up and encouraging democracy and so on, why isn't it good for Cuba?